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Full Idea
Bhaskar identifies kind essences with underlying properties, often called 'categorical bases', of the causal powers of things.
Gist of Idea
Kind essences are the categorical bases of a thing's causal powers
Source
report of Roy Bhaskar (A Realist Theory of Science [1975], p.212) by Anjan Chakravarrty - Inessential Aristotle: Powers without Essences 1
A Reaction
The problem with this, it always seems to me, is the something inherently passive is said to give rise to something which is inherently active. Couldn't two individuals with a kind have slightly different categorical bases?