ved are so damaged we wouldn't say they were the same things at all. So it seems to me that it is no problem for a property to exist even though it is unable to exist on its own. I often find myself caring much more about the property and little about the particular. I care more about the excellent property of "taste" in a steak, or the "smell" of a piece of oak wood. I would rather just have these properties without the rest of the bulk. Most people would not enjoy certain foods if they didnt have a particular taste within.I believe more strongly in the tropist theory of properties as particulars. It just seems more logical for me to believe that objects exist in space an time and of those that have the same property have matching tropes. I don't believe they have the same particular in both objects. When we say that a property, such as roundness, is presented over and over in our world, what we are saying is true. All the objects that share a certain property have different, but matching particulars. Every world is completely made up of its tropes. The particulars of properties is what makes the world into a recognizable place. The properties of shape, color, taste, etc. exist as particulars of the object they are found in. It is not the same particular as the universalists state, but rather matching particulars. ...
