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Ideas for 'Scientific Explanation', 'The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism' and 'The Ethics'

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

17195

Things persevere through a force which derives from God [Spinoza]

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

17206

The essence of a thing is its effort to persevere [Spinoza]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 5. Powers and Properties

5481	Properties have powers; they aren't just ways for logicians to classify objects [Ellis]

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

5458	Nearly all fundamental properties of physics are dispositional [Ellis]