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'Extrinsic Properties', 'Treatise of Human Nature' and 'Nature's Metaphysics'
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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]
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There may well be powers in things, with which we are quite unacquainted [Hume]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
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Only real powers are fundamental [Bird, by Mumford/Anjum]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived
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If all properties are potencies, and stimuli and manifestation characterise them, there is a regress [Bird]
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The essence of a potency involves relations, e.g. mass, to impressed force and acceleration [Bird]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / c. Dispositions as conditional
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A disposition is finkish if a time delay might mean the manifestation fizzles out [Bird]
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A robust pot attached to a sensitive bomb is not fragile, but if struck it will easily break [Bird]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / d. Dispositions as occurrent
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Megarian actualists deny unmanifested dispositions [Bird]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers
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We have no idea of powers, because we have no impressions of them [Hume]
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The distinction between a power and its exercise is entirely frivolous [Hume]
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