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Ideas for 'Deflationary Metaontology of Thomasson', 'Treatise of Human Nature' and 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671'

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

11942

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 / 4. Powers as Essence

16767

There is no centralised power, but we still need essence for a metaphysical understanding [Pasnau]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions

16788

Instead of adding Aristotelian forms to physical stuff, one could add dispositions [Pasnau]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / b. Dispositions and powers

16738

Scholastics reject dispositions, because they are not actual, as forms require [Pasnau]

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]