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Ideas for 'German Philosophy: a very short introduction', 'The Nature and Communication of Substance' and 'Treatise of Human Nature'

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers

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Power is the possibility of action, as discovered by experience [Hume]

11949

There may well be powers in things, with which we are quite unacquainted [Hume]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers

11950

We have no idea of powers, because we have no impressions of them [Hume]

11941

The distinction between a power and its exercise is entirely frivolous [Hume]