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Hume as a trope nominalist [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2012 In this paper, I argue that Hume's solution to a problem that contemporary metaphysicians call “the problem of universals” would be rather tropetheoretical than some other type of nominalism. The basic idea in different trope theories is that particular properties, i.e., tropes are postulated to account for the fact that there are particular beings ...
Hakkarainen, Jani
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Trope and It’s Rhetorical Meanings and Significations in Arabic Language (Arabic)
Journal of Islamic and Religious Studies, 2016 The Trope (المجاز) is one of the vital chapters in the Eloquence of Arabic Language and its Rhetoric. It has two kinds; the Linguistic Trope/figuration and the Mental Trope/ figuration.
Dr. Habibullah Khan
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Trope analysis and folk intuitions [PDF]
, 2021 This paper outlines a new method for identifying folk intuitions to complement armchair intuiting and experimental philosophy (X-Phi), and thereby enrich the philosopher’s toolkit.
Rennick, Stephanie, Stephanie Rennick
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Abstracta and Abstraction in Trope Theory [PDF]
, 2020 Trope theory is a leading metaphysical theory in analytic ontology. One of its classic statements is found in the work of Donald C. Williams who argued that tropes qua abstract particulars are the very alphabet of being.
Fisher, A.R.J., Fisher, Anthony R. J.
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, 2000 Trope ontology is exposed and confronted with the question where one trope ends and another begins. It is argued that tropes do not have determinate boundaries, it is arbitrary how tropes are carved up.
Faye, J. +3 more
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The trope of the vulnerable child in conditional welfare discourses:An Australian case study
, 2021 Conditional welfare policies are frequently underpinned by pejorative representations of those they target. Vulnerable children, under physical or moral threat from their welfare-dependent parents, are a mainstay of these constructions, yet the nuances ...
Peterie, Michelle +11 more
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Studia Humana, 2015 Abstract In this short paper I consider Professor Bence Nanay’s suggestion that representationalism can be supported by the theory of tropes. I argue that from a philosophical point of view such a support is nevertheless not very strong.
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Is Trope Theory a Divided House? [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper I explore Michael Loux’s important distinction between “tropes” and “tropers”. First, I argue that the distinction throws into relief an ambiguity and discrepancy in the literature, revealing two fundamentally different versions of trope ...
Garcia, Robert K.
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The angry black woman trope: the history and appearance in Tyler Perry's films [PDF]
, 2021 The angry black woman trope has been exploited in American cinema for over a century. Created from the white male gaze, the result of the stereotype was to dehumanize and devalue black women as a result of slavery.
Webber, Michelle
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A Platonic Trope Bundle Theory [PDF]
, 2020 This paper provides a rational reconstruction of a Platonic trope bundle theory that is a live alternative to contemporary bundle theories. According to the theory, Platonic particulars are composed of what Plato calls images of Forms; contemporary ...
Buckels, Christopher
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