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Ideas for Damon, Alexander Baumgarten and David Lewis

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

9476	If dispositions are more fundamental than causes, then they won't conceptually reduce to them [Bird on Lewis]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

15463

All dispositions must have causal bases [Lewis]

15120

Lewisian properties have powers because of their relationships to other properties [Lewis, by Hawthorne]

15554

A disposition needs a causal basis, a property in a certain causal role. Could the disposition be the property? [Lewis]

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

15461

A 'finkish' disposition is real, but disappears when the stimulus occurs [Lewis]

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

8573	Most properties are causally irrelevant, and we can't spot the relevant ones. [Lewis]