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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

18451	The presence of the incorporeal is only known by certain kinds of disposition [Porphyry]
	Full Idea: Being everywhere and nowhere, the incorporeal, wherever it happens to be, betrays its presence only by a certain kind of disposition.
	From: Porphyry (Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind [c.280], 4Enn3 21(20))
	A reaction: There is a mystical or dualist view of fundamental powers, as the spiritual engine which drives passive physical nature. It's rubbish of course, but if powers are primitive in a naturalistic theory, it is not a view which can be refuted.