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Full Idea
The mode in which a power presents itself is more complicated than those properties that have (strictly) nothing more to them than that which is always on display.
Gist of Idea
Powers are more complicated than properties which are always on display
Source
Neil E. Williams (The Powers Metaphysics [2019], 03.3)
Book Ref
Williams,Neil E.: 'The Powers Metaphysics' [OUP 2019], p.57
A Reaction
This is the key idea that nature is dynamic, and so must consist of potentials as well as actuals. Interesting distinction. A basic division between those properties 'always on display', and those that are not?