the knowledge of Utopia u3 has become in the course of abstract ly p lann ing backwards. Now it seems possible that w3 m i g h t be r. So create a new hypothesis h. The above solution can be varlabalized using procedural abstraction [I lewitt 1971; Sussman 1973] into a procedure as follows

• SSN can only have the trope interpretation, and never the event reading. • I take the term trope in a slightly narrower sense than that of Moltman, the sense that Villalba (2009) calls a property, i.e. ‘a condition an object is in’, a type of predicates that are well paraphrased in English by the construction [being + adjective]. I keep the term trope, as the term property is loaded with othe...

Nelson, and Yaacov Trope on earlier versions of the manuscript.

In the article two versions of an argument for particularism are presented and discussed. The first has Avicenna as originator; Donald Mertz is the originator of the second version. While the first version takes for granted a reduction of polyadic attributes, the second does not. In fact, Mertz vehemently rejects the reduction. The article ends with an attempt to make it plausible that Mertz’s ...