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Single Idea 9499

[from 'Nature's Metaphysics' by Alexander Bird, in 8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / d. Dispositions as occurrent ]

Full Idea

The Megarian actualist denies that a disposition can exist without being manifested.

Clarification

See Idea 5998 for Megarian Actualism

Gist of Idea

Megarian actualists deny unmanifested dispositions

Source

Alexander Bird (Nature's Metaphysics [2007], 5.4)

Book Reference

Bird,Alexander: 'Nature's Metaphysics' [OUP 2007], p.109


A Reaction

I agree with Bird that this extreme realism seems wrong. As he puts it (p.109), "unrealized possibilities must be part of the actual world". This commitment is beginning to change my understanding of the world I am looking at.

Related Idea

Idea 5998 From the necessity of the past we can infer the impossibility of what never happens [Diod.Cronus, by White,MJ]