TÜMELLER VE ÖZELLİKLER ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİNİN REALİZM VE TROP KURAMLARI AÇISINDAN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ
THE EVALUATION OF THE RELATION BETWEEN UNIVERSALS AND PROPERTIES IN TERMS OF REALISM AND TROP THEORIES

Summary/Abstract: On what grounds do we say the proposition “Snow is white” is true or how do we know that snow is white? There are different approaches to answer and explain why snow is white from different perspectives. For instance, according to realist theories there is a whiteness universal to explain why snow is white. However, this claim is unacceptable for tropes theories, and to them, there is not such a universal as whiteness. According to tropes theories, the answer of how we know snow is white is that there is the property of being white and by means of this property, we know the reason why snow is white. The relation between universals and properties is also problematic. While in most realistic theories, the universal and property are accepted to be the same, the existence of universals and properties is not accepted in nominalist theories. On the other hand, even though tropes theories deny universals, they accept the existence of properties. In this study, the relation between universals and properties will be evaluated in realist and tropes theories. As a result of this analysis, the reason why tropes theories are more successful approach than other theories concerning our knowledge of objects will be expounded.

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