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    Supports→Tropes and immanent universals are metaphysically untenable

    Trope bundle theory requires co-located tropes to constitute a single object, yet distinct tropes occupy distinct locations by their own intrinsic nature, making coherent bundling formally impossible.

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    Key Terms

    Intrinsic nature(Used in Armstrong's definition of internal relations)
    The non-relational properties of an entity
    Trope bundle theory(Ontology / metaphysics of properties and objects)
    The view that for an object to exist, its tropes must be mutually compresent — i.e., an object is a bundle of compresent tropes
    co-located(describing the relationship between sounds and the events that produce them)
    Existing in the same place at the same time; occupying the same physical space.
    metaphysics(Hartshorne's naturalistic redefinition of metaphysics)
    On Hartshorne's view, the study not of realities beyond the physical, but of features of reality that are ubiquitous or that would exist in any possible world.
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    (Trope theory alternative to immanent realism about universals)
    A particular, spatiotemporally located instance or 'case' of a property or relation, as opposed to a repeatable universal.

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