Full Idea
Why cannot a certain trope 'float free' of the trope-bundle to which it belongs and migrate to another bundle?
Gist of Idea
Why cannot a trope float off and join another bundle?
Source
E.J. Lowe (The Possibility of Metaphysics [1998], 9.8)
Book Reference
Lowe,E.J.: 'The Possibility of Metaphysics' [OUP 2001], p.207
A Reaction
Tropes are said to be dependent on their possessors, but at the same time to exist as particulars. Lowe's suggestion is that you can't have it both ways. A particular sphericity with no sphere does not even make sense.