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'Opus Maius (major works)', 'De Re and De Dicto' and 'Dispositions and Powers'
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
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Humeans see properties as having no more essential features and relations than their distinctness [Friend/Kimpton-Nye, by PG]
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Dispositions are what individuate properties, and they constitute their essence [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers
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Powers are properties which necessitate dispositions [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
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Dispositional essentialism (unlike the grounding view) says only fundamental properties are powers [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence
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A power is a property which consists entirely of dispositions [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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Powers are qualitative properties which fully ground dispositions [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions
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Dispositions have directed behaviour which occurs if triggered [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23699
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'Masked' dispositions fail to react because something intervenes [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23700
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A disposition is 'altered' when the stimulus reverses the disposition [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23701
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A disposition is 'mimicked' if a different cause produces that effect from that stimulus [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23702
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A 'trick' can look like a stimulus for a disposition which will happen without it [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23703
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Some dispositions manifest themselves without a stimulus [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23704
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We could analyse dispositions as 'possibilities', with no mention of a stimulus [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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