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Full Idea
Powers are the properties at the core of the powers ontology, and dispositions are more like useful talk. …Dispositions are the phenomena to be explained by the power metaphysic.
Gist of Idea
Dispositions are just useful descriptions, which are explained by underlying powers
Source
Neil E. Williams (The Powers Metaphysics [2019], 10.2)
Book Ref
Williams,Neil E.: 'The Powers Metaphysics' [OUP 2019], p.230
A Reaction
The picture I subscribe to. The first step is to see nature as dynamic (as Aristotle does with his 'potentialities'), and the next step to understand what must ground these dynamic dispositional properties. He calls dispositions 'process initiators'.