The lawlike dynamics of tropes : A theory of natural laws in a one-category ontology

Abstract: Trope theory is a philosophy that famously ?calls for completion in a dozen directions at once.? It is my intention here to walk some way one of these, where it, prima facie, seems that this theory might be in a worse position than the theory of universals. This subject is the one of natural laws, which due to their general nature might appear to pose a problem for any strictly particularist ontology. However, I will argue that, despite every trope's inherent particularity, we can still infer universal laws from them, if we correctly analyze what it means to have a property. This analysis leads us to an identification of the property-possession with the causal powers it infers. The theory is then employed in the analysis of Newtonian gravitation, in order to give a concrete example of its application.