Tropes, Particularity, and Space-Time
Date
2007ISSN
0925-4560Source
Journal for General Philosophy of ScienceVolume
38Pages
357-368Google Scholar check
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Several difficulties, concerning the individuation and the variation of tropes, beset the initial classic version of trope theory. K. Campbell (Abstract particulars, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1990) presented a modified version that aims to avoid those difficulties. Unfortunately, the revised theory cannot make the case that one of the fundamental tropes, space-time, is a genuine particular.