Trope denotes figurative and metaphorical language and one which has been used in various technical senses. The term trope derives from the Greek τρόπος...
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Look up trope or tropes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Trope or tropes may refer to: Trope (cinema), a cinematic convention for conveying a concept...
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Antisemitic tropes, also known as antisemitic canards or antisemitic libels, are "sensational reports, misrepresentations or fabrications" directed at...
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TV Tropes is a wiki that collects and documents descriptions and examples of plot conventions and devices, which it refers to as tropes, within many creative...
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Indian burial ground trope is frequently used to explain supernatural events and hauntings in American popular culture. The trope gained popularity in...
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Plato (redirect from Legacy of Plato's philosophy)
Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms. He raised...
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Outline of metaphysics (category Outlines of philosophy topics)
Forms Transcendental idealism Trope (philosophy) Tychism Voluntarism (metaphysics) Metaphysical Society of America Philosophy of Time Society The Metaphysical...
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Continuum Paradigm Trivial objections Trivialism Trolley problem Trope (philosophy) Trope of Litotes Troubled Sleep True-believer syndrome True name Truism...
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(Latin for "remember (that you have) to die") is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. The concept has its...
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Western philosophy at least as far back as the Pyrrhonist philosopher Agrippa who includes the problem of circular reasoning among his Five Tropes of Agrippa...
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Aristotle (redirect from Natural philosophy of Aristotle)
natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum...
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In philosophy, events are objects in time or instantiations of properties in objects. On some views, only changes in the form of acquiring or losing a...
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Pluralism is a term used in philosophy, referring to a worldview of multiplicity, often used in opposition to monism (the view that all is one) or dualism...
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Scripture in the vernacular. The plowboy trope is an anti-elitist trope dating back at least 1600 years. The trope starts with St. Jerome's letter eulogizing...
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Ontology (redirect from Ontology (philosophy))
the same property may belong to several different bundles. According to trope bundle theory, properties are particular entities that belong to a single...
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Hellenistic philosophy is Ancient Greek philosophy corresponding to the Hellenistic period in Ancient Greece, from the death of Alexander the Great in...
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Predication in philosophy refers to an act of judgement where one term is subsumed under another. A comprehensive conceptualization describes it as the...
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In logic and philosophy (especially metaphysics), a property is a characteristic of an object; a red object is said to have the property of redness. The...
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Philosophy and literature involves the literary treatment of philosophers and philosophical themes (the literature of philosophy), and the philosophical...
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Logos (redirect from Logos (philosophy and religion))
romanized: lógos, lit. 'word, discourse, or reason') is a term used in Western philosophy, psychology and rhetoric, as well as religion (notably Christianity);...
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Nominalism (category Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Maurin, Anna-Sofia. "Tropes". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. "Nominalism". Internet...
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Occam's razor (redirect from Principle of parsimony (philosophy))
In philosophy, Occam's razor (also spelled Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor; Latin: novacula Occami) is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching...
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Abstraction (redirect from Abstraction (philosophy))
relation to marsupial or monotreme. Perhaps confusingly, some philosophies refer to tropes (instances of properties) as abstract particulars—e.g., the particular...
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Wisdom (redirect from Wisdom (philosophy))
of a Thousand Faces. The character Master Yoda from the films evokes the trope of the wise sage or "Oriental Monk", and he is frequently quoted, analogously...
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Philosophical skepticism (redirect from Scepticism (philosophy))
the ten tropes of Aenesidemus—although whether he invented the tropes or just systematized them from prior Pyrrhonist works is unknown. The tropes represent...
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Pyrrhonism (category Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links)
sets of stock arguments known as "modes" or "tropes." Aenesidemus is considered the creator of the ten tropes of Aenesidemus (also known as the ten modes...
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Substance theory (redirect from Substance (philosophy))
theory combined with trope theory (as opposed to metaphysical realism) avoids the indiscernibles argument because each attribute is a trope if can only be held...
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Donald Cary Williams (category Harvard University Department of Philosophy faculty)
trope theory remains a strong candidate for being the best explanation we have in analytic ontology. See also the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy...
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If Tropes. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-94-017-0079-5. McKeon, Matthew. "Logical Consequence". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved...
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Killing baby Hitler (section Literary trope)
logical consistency of time. Killing baby Hitler first became a literary trope of science fiction during World War II and has since been used to explore...
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