Full Idea
In my account of properties they are at once qualitative and dispositional: properties are powerful qualities.
Gist of Idea
Properties are both qualitative and dispositional - they are powerful qualities
Source
John Heil (The Universe as We Find It [2012], 05.1)
Book Reference
Heil,John: 'The Universe as We Find It' [OUP 2012], p.84
A Reaction
I have never managed to understand what Heil means by 'qualities'. Is he talking about the phenomenal aspects of powers? Does he mean categorical properties. I can't find an ontological space for his things to slot into.