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Tropes : properties, objects, and mental causation / Douglas Ehring.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ehring, Douglas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tropes (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Properties and objects are everywhere, but remain a philosophical mystery. Douglas Ehring argues that the idea of tropes - properties and relations understood as particulars - provides the best foundation for a metaphysical account of properties and objects. He develops and defends a new theory of trope nominalism.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Tropes
- pt. 2. Natural class trope nominalism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 20, 2012).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-26975-9
- 9786613269751
- 0-19-161939-6
- OCLC:
- 754997052
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