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Full Idea
If objects are bundles of properties …they must be robust enough to enter into building relations with one another such that they can form objects.
Gist of Idea
If objects are property bundles, the properties need combining powers
Source
Neil E. Williams (The Powers Metaphysics [2019], 01.5)
Book Ref
Williams,Neil E.: 'The Powers Metaphysics' [OUP 2019], p.16
A Reaction
A very nice point. The Humean bundle view of objects just seems to take properties to be 'impressions' or verbal predicates, but they must have causal powers to be a grounding for ontology.