If Tropes
In the book If Tropes, the author attempts to approach and then deal with some of the most basic problems for a theory of tropes. The investigation proceeds from three basic assumptions: (i) tropes (i.e. particular properties) exist, (ii) only tropes exis
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SYNTHESE LffiRARY STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Managing Editor:
JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, U.S.A. Editors: DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands DONALD DAVIDSON, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
THEO A.F. KUIPERS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California, U.S.A. JAN WOLENSKI, Jagiellonian University, KrakOw, Poland
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ANNA-SOFIA MAURIN Lund University, Sweden and Viixjo University, Sweden
IF TROPES
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ISBN 978-90-481-6032-7 ISBN 978-94-017-0079-5 (eBook) DOl 10.1007/978-94-017-0079-5
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E a consciencia de que a metafisica e uma consequencia de estar mal disposto. Tabacaria, Alvaro de Campos (Fernando Pessoa), 1928
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
XI
INTRODUCTION
1.
Particular properties 1.1 Theoretical background 1.2 Theoretical framework 1.3 The book
2
TROPES
1. 2. 3. 4.
What is it to be a trope? Simple Particular Abstract
3
METAPHYSICS
1. 2.
4. 5.
Setting the general framework The aim of investigation 2.1 Subject matter 2.2 Goal The method of investigation 3.1 Whitehead on metaphysics 3.2 The method of discovery Metaphysics and science The success of investigation
4
TRUTH-MAKING
1. 2.
Metaphysics and language Making true 2.1 Entailment
3.
1 3 5 7
8 11 16 21
25 26 26 29 30 32 33 35 36
37 39 41 vii
viii 3. 4.
5.
Truth bearers Logical Atomism 4.1 What is an atomic proposition? 4.2 Working out the atomistic hypothesis Truth-maker theory and tropes 5.1 Propositions ostensibly about things 5.2 Propositions ostensibly about universals
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THE PROBLEM OF UNIVERSALISATION
1.
The problem of universalisation introduced 1.1 Two problems distinguished 1.2 What the problem is and what it is not 1.3 Constructing universality A first attempt: the unity is primitive 2.1 Stout and distributive unity 2.2 Some of Armstrong's arguments against class-nominalism disarmed 2.3 More serious problems for class-primitivism 2.4 Summary A second attempt: resemblance 3.1 Two presuppositions 3.2 Degrees of resemblance 3.3 Same but different 3.4 Is resemblance internal or external? 3.5 Ontologically characterising exact resemblance 3.6 A first alternative: exact resemblance as an underived relation 3.7 A second alternative: exact resemblance as a
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