Full Idea
Could a thing undergo radical change with respect to its properties without undergoing any change in its causal powers, or undergo radical change in its causal powers without undergoing any change in the properties that underlie these powers?
Gist of Idea
Could properties change without the powers changing, or powers change without the properties changing?
Source
Sydney Shoemaker (Causality and Properties [1980], §05)
Book Reference
Shoemaker,Sydney: 'Identity, Cause and Mind' [OUP 2003], p.215
A Reaction
I don't accept properties underlying powers, but these two questions at least force us to see how closely the two are linked.