Ovarian cancer is the seventh most common cancer in women and leading the cause of death among gynecological cancers (Kristensen and Trope, 1997). The incidence rate vary in both sexes and geographic worldwide. China has a relatively low incidence of 3-5/105 females, which is about one-fourth of the incidence in northern European countries (Jin et al., 1993). The wide geographic variation at an...

Trope ontology is exposed and confronted with the question where one trope ends and another begins. It is argued that tropes do not have determinate boundaries, it is arbitrary how tropes are carved up. An ontology, which I call field ontology, is proposed which takes this into account. The material world consists of a certain number of fields, each of which is extended over all of space. It is...

This paper explores a novel analysis of adjectives in the comparative and the positive based on the notion of a trope, rather than the notion of a degree. Tropes are particularized properties, concrete manifestations of properties in individuals. The point of departure is that a sentence like John is happier than Mary is intuitively equivalent to ‘John’s happiness exceeds Mary’s happiness’, a s...