Full Idea
Potencies are characterized in terms of their stimulus and manifestation properties, then if potencies are the only properties then these properties are also potencies, and must be characterized by yet further properties, leading to a vicious regress.
Gist of Idea
If all properties are potencies, and stimuli and manifestation characterise them, there is a regress
Source
Alexander Bird (Nature's Metaphysics [2007], 1.2)
Book Reference
Bird,Alexander: 'Nature's Metaphysics' [OUP 2007], p.7
A Reaction
This is cited as the most popular objection to the dispositional account of properties.