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Full Idea
On the model of powers I prefer, every possible state of affairs that can arise is written into the powers that would constitute them.
Gist of Idea
Every possible state of affairs is written into its originating powers
Source
Neil E. Williams (The Powers Metaphysics [2019], 04.3)
Book Ref
Williams,Neil E.: 'The Powers Metaphysics' [OUP 2019], p.93
A Reaction
I can't make any sense of 'written into', any more than I could when Leibniz proposed roughly the same thing about monads. I presume he means that any state of affairs which ever arises is the expression of the intrinsic nature of powers.
Related Idea
Idea 19405 Substances are in harmony, because they each express the one reality in themselves [Leibniz]