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Full Idea
Power Monism: all properties are powers. Categoricalism: all fundamentals are categorical. Dualism allows both types. I defend Mixed Monism - that there is a single class of fundamental properties that are at once powerful and categorical.
Gist of Idea
Rather than pure powers or pure categoricals, I favour basics which are both at once
Source
Neil E. Williams (The Powers Metaphysics [2019], 03.3)
Book Ref
Williams,Neil E.: 'The Powers Metaphysics' [OUP 2019], p.56
A Reaction
This is the main dilemma for the powers ontology - of how powers can be basic, if there needs to be some entity which possesses the power. But what possesses the powers of an electron? I like Williams's idea, without being clear about it.