Single Idea 9450

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived]

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.