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Single Idea 12711
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers
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Full Idea
The force or proximate cause of these changes [of position] is something more real, and there is sufficient basis to attribute it to one body more than to another.
Clarification
A 'proximate' cause is the one closest to the effect
Gist of Idea
The immediate cause of movements is more real [than geometry]
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (Discourse on Metaphysics [1686], §18), quoted by Daniel Garber - Leibniz:Body,Substance,Monad 3
Book Ref
Garber,Daniel: 'Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad' [OUP 2009], p.119
A Reaction
The force is said to be 'more real' than geometry. Leibniz seems to have embraced fairly physical powers in the period 1678-1698, and then seen them as more and more like spirits.
The
33 ideas
with the same theme
[nature of underlying powers]:
16113
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Potentiality is a principle of change, in another thing, or as another thing
[Aristotle]
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16114
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Active 'dunamis' is best translated as 'power' or 'ability' (rather than 'potentiality')
[Aristotle, by Gill,ML]
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5117
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Heavy and light are defined by their tendency to move down or up
[Aristotle]
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15965
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Boyle attacked a contemporary belief that powers were occult things
[Boyle, by Alexander,P]
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12477
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We get the idea of power from our own actions, and the interaction of external bodies
[Locke]
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12490
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Power is active or passive, and has a relation to actions
[Locke]
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12521
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We can only know a thing's powers when we have combined it with many things
[Locke]
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12735
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Everything has a fixed power, as required by God, and by the possibility of reasoning
[Leibniz]
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12733
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Because of the definitions of cause, effect and power, cause and effect have the same power
[Leibniz]
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12711
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The immediate cause of movements is more real [than geometry]
[Leibniz]
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12959
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We discern active power from our minds, so mind must be involved in all active powers
[Leibniz]
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12967
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I use the word 'entelechy' for a power, to include endeavour, as well as mere aptitude
[Leibniz]
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13179
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A complete monad is a substance with primitive active and passive power
[Leibniz]
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11949
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There may well be powers in things, with which we are quite unacquainted
[Hume]
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11942
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Power is the possibility of action, as discovered by experience
[Hume]
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15312
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We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks
[Priestley]
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20105
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Storms are wonderful expressions of free powers!
[Nietzsche]
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15489
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A property that cannot interact is worse than inert - it isn't there at all
[Martin,CB]
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18398
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Space, time, and some other basics, are not causal powers
[Ellis]
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13580
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Causal powers must necessarily act the way they do
[Ellis]
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13598
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Causal powers are often directional (e.g. centripetal, centrifugal, circulatory)
[Ellis]
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15279
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Energy was introduced to physics to refer to the 'store of potency' of a moving ball
[Harré/Madden]
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15276
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Some powers need a stimulus, but others are just released
[Harré/Madden]
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15305
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Some powers are variable, others cannot change (without destroying an identity)
[Harré/Madden]
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11932
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Powers have Directedness, Independence, Actuality, Intrinsicality and Objectivity
[Molnar]
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11933
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A power's type-identity is given by its definitive manifestation
[Molnar]
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15148
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Powers give explanations, without being necessary for some class membership
[Chakravartty]
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23775
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Powers are 'multi-track' if they can produce a variety of manifestations
[Williams,NE]
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23780
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Every possible state of affairs is written into its originating powers
[Williams,NE]
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23789
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Naming powers is unwise, because that it usually done by a single manifestation
[Williams,NE]
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14378
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Science aims at identifying the structure and nature of the powers that exist
[Jacobs]
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14538
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Powers explain properties, causes, modality, events, and perhaps even particulars
[Mumford/Anjum]
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23707
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Powers are properties which necessitate dispositions
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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