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'The Roots of Reference', 'The Origin of Forms and Qualities' and 'Knowing One's Own Mind'
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers
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Boyle attacked a contemporary belief that powers were occult things [Boyle, by Alexander,P]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived
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Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions
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In the 17th century, 'disposition' usually just means the spatial arrangement of parts [Boyle, by Pasnau]
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