Download or read book Tropes written by Douglas Ehring and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Properties and objects are everywhere, but remain a philosophical mystery. Douglas Ehring argues that the idea of tropes--properties and relations understood as particulars--provides the best foundation for a metaphysical account of properties and objects. He develops and defends a new theory of trope nominalism.