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Full Idea
Some philosophers who accept that properties are intrinsic features of objects regard them as pure powers, pure dispositionalities; I prefer to think of properties as simultaneously dispositional and qualitative.
Gist of Idea
I think of properties as simultaneously dispositional and qualitative
Source
John Heil (From an Ontological Point of View [2003], Intro)
Book Ref
Heil,John: 'From an Ontological Point of View' [OUP 2005], p.11
A Reaction
I am uneasy about 'qualitative' as a category, and am inclined to reduce it to being a dispositional power to cause primary and secondary qualities in observers. Roughness is only a power, not a quality, if there are no observers.
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