Full Idea
The Megarian actualist denies that a disposition can exist without being manifested.
Clarification
See Idea 5998 for Megarian Actualism
Gist of Idea
Megarian actualists deny unmanifested dispositions
Source
Alexander Bird (Nature's Metaphysics [2007], 5.4)
Book Reference
Bird,Alexander: 'Nature's Metaphysics' [OUP 2007], p.109
A Reaction
I agree with Bird that this extreme realism seems wrong. As he puts it (p.109), "unrealized possibilities must be part of the actual world". This commitment is beginning to change my understanding of the world I am looking at.
Related Idea
Idea 5998 From the necessity of the past we can infer the impossibility of what never happens [Diod.Cronus, by White,MJ]