Full Idea
Understanding intrinsic properties as being causal powers is likely to be most profitable, and, if true, renders the causal criterion of property existence true analytically.
Gist of Idea
Intrinsic properties are just causal powers, and identifying a property as causal is then analytic
Source
Stephen Mumford (Dispositions [1998], 06.2)
Book Reference
Mumford,Stephen: 'Dispositions' [OUP 1998], p.123
A Reaction
[He cites E.Fales on this] I'm inclined to think that in the ultimate ontology the notion of a 'property' drops out. There are true causal powers, and then conventional human ways of grouping such powers together and naming them.