Full Idea
Dispositional essentialism yields the view that just fundamental properties and some evolved macro properties are powers. The grounding view, by contrast, seems to yield the result that all properties are powers.
Gist of Idea
Dispositional essentialism (unlike the grounding view) says only fundamental properties are powers
Source
Friend/Kimpton-Nye (Dispositions and Powers [2023], 3.7)
Book Reference
Friend/Kimpton-Nye: 'Dispositions and Powers' [CUP 2023], p.71
A Reaction
For the second view, Mumford (for example) claims that the sphericity of a ball is a power, but that seems to miss the whole motivation for the powers ontology, which offers a fairly fundamental explanation of laws and modality.
Related Ideas
Idea 23711 A power is a property which consists entirely of dispositions [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
Idea 23712 Powers are qualitative properties which fully ground dispositions [Friend/Kimpton-Nye]