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Full Idea
If a property is something over and above its causal profile, we seem to have conceptual space for an electron to have negative charge 1 and negative charge 2, that have exactly the same causal powers.
Gist of Idea
If properties are more than their powers, we could have two properties with the same power
Source
John Hawthorne (Causal Structuralism [2001], 1.3)
Book Ref
Hawthorne,John: 'Metaphysical Essays' [OUP 2002], p.215
Related Idea
Idea 15122 Could two different properties have the same causal profile? [Hawthorne]