Single Idea 23791

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / b. Dispositions and powers]

Full Idea

Powers are the properties at the core of the powers ontology, and dispositions are more like useful talk. …Dispositions are the phenomena to be explained by the power metaphysic.

Gist of Idea

Dispositions are just useful descriptions, which are explained by underlying powers

Source

Neil E. Williams (The Powers Metaphysics [2019], 10.2)

Book Reference

Williams,Neil E.: 'The Powers Metaphysics' [OUP 2019], p.230


A Reaction

The picture I subscribe to. The first step is to see nature as dynamic (as Aristotle does with his 'potentialities'), and the next step to understand what must ground these dynamic dispositional properties. He calls dispositions 'process initiators'.