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Kinds of Tropes without Kinds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this article, we propose a new trope nominalist conception of determinate and determinable kinds of quantitative tropes. The conception is developed as follows.
Hakkarainen, Jani   +2 more
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Perceiving Exploding Tropes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The topic of this paper is the perception of properties. It is argued that the perception of properties allows for a distinction between the sense of the identity and the sense of the qualitative nature of a property. So, for example, we might perceive a
Almäng, Jan
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Quantity Tropes and Internal Relations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this article, we present a new conception of internal relations between quantity tropes falling under determinates and determinables. We begin by providing a novel characterization of the necessary relations between these tropes as
Hakkarainen, Jani   +2 more
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A World of Fields [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 world is too large : philosophical mobility and urban space in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Paris [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Too often associated with the tropes of exile, wandering, or nomadism in postmodern thought, philosophical mobility has been little studied in itself, except in connection with the singular travel practices of a Voltaire, a Denis Diderot, or a Jean ...
Van Damme, Stéphane
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Avatars Going Mainstream: Typology of Tropes in Avatar-Based Storytelling Practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Due to the growing popularity of video games, gaming itself has become a shared experience among media audiences worldwide. The phenomenon of avatar-based games has led to the emergence of new storytelling practices.
Tymińska, Marta
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Natural Language and its Ontology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper gives a characterization of the ontology implicit in natural language and the entities it involves, situates natural language ontology within metaphysics, and responds to Chomskys' dismissal of externalist ...
Moltmann, Friederike
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Perceiving tropes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
There are two very different ways of thinking about perception. According to the first one, perception is representational: it represents the world as being a certain way.
Nanay, Bence
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Analysis of translated tropes: metaphors, similes & analogies in a case study of the English & Dutch translations of the Russian poet Alexander Galich [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Since Even-Zohar and Toury introduced a target-culture approach in translation studies, research focus turned to the effect of the target text on the reader. Consequently, it is, among other things, important to study the translation of typical elements
Rura, Lidia
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Tropes, Causal Processes, and Functional Laws [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
My earlier attempt to develop a trope nominalist account of the relation between tropes and causal processes. In accordance with weak dispositional essentialism (Hendry & Rowbottom 2009), I remain uncommitted to full-blown necessity of causal functional ...
Keinänen, Markku
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