there is such a thing as the trope "blue" in jeans then wouldnt it be in both legs at once? This would force the tropist to believe in multiple locations. One could however, avoid the problem of multiple locations by thinking of tropes as being present at points and not spatially extended. If two objects have the property red they are said to have two matching tropes at the those particular points, not the identical trope and not spatially extended. This seems to be the greatest advantage that the tropist theory has over the universalists theory. With this problem eliminated it seems as though the trope theory is by far the superior.Also when a scientists reports his data like the temperature of an experiment or the acceleration of an object, he is reporting a trope, not a universal. This is an occurrence and will often change. Tropes can thus be a case, state, event or a process. Tropes can also be geometrical figures. If this is true a persons figure could be a trope. So in this case someone is more concerned with taking care of their own "figure" than those of anyone else.Both of these theories state that the properties of particulars are in themselves particulars. I also believe that properties are particulars. Some people argue that in order to truly exist the object must be able to exist by itself. Clearly color and shape cannot exist on there own. Where we can take the ink out of a pen, we cannot strip the color from an orange. More obviously we can not make an orange by putting the shape, color, and flavor of it together. Based on this properties are not particulars. However, this argument quickly goes away under close examination. There are many particulars that cannot be removed and cannot exist on there own. It would be impossible to remove Lake Superior and place it somewhere else on its own. We have no problem though with saying that Lake Superior is in fact a concrete object. Most things when they are remo...
