Single Idea 16185

[catalogued under 7. Existence / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism]

Full Idea

Causality is a clue to what properties are real.

Gist of Idea

Causality indicates which properties are real

Source

Nancy Cartwright (How the Laws of Physics Lie [1983], 9.3)

Book Reference

Cartwright,Nancy: 'How the Laws of Physics Lie' [OUP 2002], p.202


A Reaction

An interesting variant on the Shoemaker proposal that properties actually are causal. I'm not sure that there is anything more to causality that the expression in action of properties, which I take to be powers. Structures are not properties.