Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Reza Mahoozi

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Iranian Institute for Social and Cultural Studies

Abstract

Campbell, as a structuralist and phenomenalist philosopher, explains the ontological structure of things based on properties. Many physicists have endorsed his theory because he introduces properties as particular and tropic entities, of which outer world is built. In this paper, first, I introduce tropes and trope theory then I will notice some similarities and differences between this theory and physician’s opinions about subatomic and fields. We will conclude that we cannot introduce subatomic and fields as properties to explain the structure of external world.

Keywords

• property
• trope
• external objects
• trope theory
• subatomic
• fields