To say anything about what it is to be a trope is difficult in several ways. First, it is difficult
because we are now only at the beginning of our dealings with tropes and many …

Dispositionality and qualitativity are key notions to describe the world that we inhabit.
Dispositionality is a matter of what a thing is disposed to do in certain circumstances …

It has been a common assumption that words are substances that instantiate or have
properties. In this paper, I question the assumption that our ontology of words requires …

According to the cluster of theories in the metaphysics of properties known as 'trope'theories,
properties are collections of particular qualitative instances. Though increasingly influential …

Formal ontology as a main branch of metaphysics investigates categories of being. In the
formal ontological approach to metaphysics, these ontological categories are analysed by …

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 …

The concept of instantiation is realized differently across a variety of metaphysical theories.
A certain realization of the concept in a given theory depends on what roles are specified …

FH Bradley's relation regress poses a difficult problem for metaphysics of relations. In this
paper, we reconstruct this regress argument systematically and make its presuppositions …

Abstract In Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy, CD Broad advanced a distinctive
ontology of things and processes. He argues that neither things nor processes are reduced …

Traditional ontologies of tropes have proposed that tropes should be construed as' simple
entities' that have at once a qualitative and a particular character. These tropes form …