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Ideas for 'A Puzzle Concerning Matter and Form', 'Kinds of Minds' and 'Causal Explanation'

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

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A disposition needs a causal basis, a property in a certain causal role. Could the disposition be the property? [Lewis]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

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The possible Aristotelian view that forms are real and active principles is clearly wrong [Fine,K, by Pasnau]