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The second fundamental constructive task in the development of a theory of tropes is that of constructing what may be called ‘concrete particulars’ (or, ‘things’) from a basic stock of tropers.231
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[...] substances are objects of pre-philosophical thinking: they present themselves to the ontologist as data for philosophical analysis. His task is to provide a coherent account of the ontological structure of these familiar non-philosophical objects.230
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Maurin, AS. (2002). The Problem of Thing-Construction. In: If Tropes. Synthese Library, vol 308. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0079-5_6
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