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'Metaphysics', 'True Method in Philosophy and Theology' and 'Potentiality'
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers
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Potentiality is a principle of change, in another thing, or as another thing [Aristotle]
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Active 'dunamis' is best translated as 'power' or 'ability' (rather than 'potentiality') [Aristotle, by Gill,ML]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
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The main characteristic of the source of change is activity [energeia] [Aristotle, by Politis]
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Actualities are arranged by priority, going back to what initiates process [Aristotle]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence
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Giving the function of a house defines its actuality [Aristotle]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 5. Powers and Properties
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Potentiality in geometry is metaphorical [Aristotle]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions
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I have an 'iterated ability' to learn the violin - that is, the ability to acquire that ability [Vetter]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / c. Dispositions as conditional
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We should think of dispositions as 'to do' something, not as 'to do something, if ....' [Vetter]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / d. Dispositions as occurrent
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The Megarans say something is only capable of something when it is actually doing it [Aristotle]
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Megaran actualism is just scepticism about the qualities of things [Aristotle]
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Megaran actualists prevent anything from happening, by denying a capacity for it to happen! [Aristotle]
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Nomological dispositions (unlike ordinary ones) have to be continually realised [Vetter]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers
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How can spatiotemporal relations be understood in dispositional terms? [Vetter]
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