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3. Varieties of Trope Theory ... The reader should realize that although, like philosophy itself, trope theory is over two thousand years old; it is just now in a quite lively phase of controversial development in more than one Western country. One man's tropism is another man's (woman's) execrated folly, and so it goes.
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Tropes are ontologically simple entities. On trope theory, properties are assayed not as universals but as particulars: the redness of a tomato is as particular, as unrepeatable, as the tomato. ... Posted by Bill Vallicella on Monday, December 01, 2008 at 06:26 PM in Trope Theory | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
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Curriculum Vitae : Work on Metaphor and Tropology ... 1954 "Wasn't It a Thought Titanic?" American Anthropologist, Vol. 56, No. 5:l, p. 742. ... 1991a Beyond Metaphor: The Theory of Tropes in Anthropology. J. W. Fernandez ed. Stanford Univ Press. Summer 1991. Preface and Introduction.
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Trope theory is ontologically parsimonious by comparison to standard ontological theory, since TT can get the metaphysical job done with only one fundamental type of thing. ... Trope theory solves the Problem of Universals, modulo concerns about resemblance.
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2. Trope theory is ontologically parsimonious by comparison to standard ontological theory, since TT can get the metaphysical job done with only one fundamental type of thing.
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One account of properties is known as "trope theory". Now, there are various forms of trope theory, and we haven't really studied them yet, so I'm going to talk on a very general level, ... Trope theory, it seems, is, like other theories of properties going all the way back to Plato, supposed to explain homonymy.
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