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Ideas for Carneades, Paul Benacerraf and Barbara Vetter

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

17954

Essence is a thing's necessities, but what about its possibilities (which may not be realised)? [Vetter]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions

19021

I have an 'iterated ability' to learn the violin - that is, the ability to acquire that ability [Vetter]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / c. Dispositions as conditional

19016

We should think of dispositions as 'to do' something, not as 'to do something, if ....' [Vetter]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / d. Dispositions as occurrent

19017

Nomological dispositions (unlike ordinary ones) have to be continually realised [Vetter]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers

19014

How can spatiotemporal relations be understood in dispositional terms? [Vetter]