Full Idea
Potentiality can now be recognised as the common genus of dispositions and such related properties as abilities.
Gist of Idea
Potentiality is the common genus of dispositions, abilities, and similar properties
Source
Barbara Vetter (Potentiality [2015], 4.1)
Book Reference
Vetter,Barbara: 'Potentiality: from Dispositions to Modality' [OUP 2015], p.102
A Reaction
This is the reason why Vetter defends a metaphysics of modality based on potentialities, rather than on narrower concepts such as dispositions, powers or essences. She can evade the problems which those narrower concepts raise.