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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Laws in Nature' and 'The Intrinsic Quality of Experience'

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
Properties are just natural clusters of powers [Mumford]
     Full Idea: The view of properties I find most attractive is one in which they are natural clusters of, and exhausted by, powers (plus other connections to other properties).
     From: Stephen Mumford (Laws in Nature [2004], 10.6)