Category: Trope Theory
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Trope Simplicity and Divine Simplicity Compared
I concluded my Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on the divine simplicity with an attempt at softening up the contemporary reader for the possible coherence of the doctrine of divine simplicity by adducing some garden variety examples of contemporary philosophical posits that are ontologically simple in one or more of the ways in which God is said…
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Bradley’s Regress and the ‘Adicity’ of Compresence: Is it Dyadic, Triadic, or N-Adic?
This is an addendum to Trope Theory Meets Bradley's Regress. In that paper I touched upon the question whether the compresence relation is dyadic or not, but did not delve into the matter in any depth. Now I will say a little more with the help of George Molnar's excellent discussion in Powers: A Study…