A new defence of natural class trope nominalism

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dc.contributor.authorFriesen, Lowell K
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeBailey, Jack (Philosophy) Sinclair, Struan (English)en
dc.contributor.supervisorCaplan, Ben (Philosophy)en
dc.date.accessioned2005-09-08T13:37:42Z
dc.date.available2005-09-08T13:37:42Z
dc.date.issued2005-09-08T13:37:42Z
dc.degree.disciplinePhilosophyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.abstractAccording to natural class trope nominalism, properties are natural classes of tropes, where the "naturalness" of natural classes is taken to be primitive and unanalyzable. In this thesis I defend natural class trope nominalism from two objections: i) that the naturalness of natural classes is analyzable, and ii) that natural class trope nominalism cannot account for certain modal facts (namely, that there could have been more or fewer tropes of any given type), an objection raised by Nicolas Wolterstorff. I defend natural class trope nominalism from (i) indirectly by presenting several putative analyses (namely, those of D. M. Armstrong, Keith Campbell, and Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereya) of natural classes and arguing that they are all deficient, thereby undermining the claim that natural classes are analyzable. Douglas Ehring has recently defended natural class trope nominalism from (ii) by developing a counterpart theory for types of tropes. However, counterpart theory is not universally accepted. So I present three non-counterpart-theoretic alternatives. The natural class trope nominalist can meet Wolterstorff's objection a) by positing existent, but uninstantiated, tropes, b) by accepting modal realism, and c) by accepting a thesis called 'transworld property exemplification'.en
dc.description.noteOctober 2005en
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/173
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectnatural class trope nominalismen
dc.subjecttrope, universal, natural class, resemblance, Douglas Ehring, D. M. Armstrong, Keith Campbell, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereya, Nicolas Wolterstorffen
dc.titleA new defence of natural class trope nominalismen
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
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