Concept
Trope (philosophy)
Overview
In philosophy, a trope is a concept with various technical uses, namely these three:
In epistemology, a stock argument for attacking beliefs and assumptions
In metaphysics, a particular instance of a universal
In Hayden White's metahistory, a way or style of presenting history
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Philosophers who discussed Trope (philosophy)
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- George Berkeley
- Phaedo
- Innatism
- Historiography
- Analytic philosophy
- Republic (Plato)
- Substantial form
- Metaphysics
- Philosophical skepticism
- Metaphor
- David Malet Armstrong
- Nominalism
- Irony
- Plato
- Problem of universals
- Parmenides
- Theory of forms
- Semantics
- Abstraction
- Universal (metaphysics)
- Occam's razor
- Bertrand Russell
- Dogma
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Hellenistic philosophy.