Do powers need powers to make them powerful?: from pandispositionalism to Aristotle

<p>The nature of powers is vigorously debated in the literature between, broadly, the dispositionalist camp and the categoricalist camp.1 The main difference that divides the two camps is whether there are powers that do not depend ontologically on categorical properties-pure powers;2 a secon...

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Main Author: Marmodoro, A
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Published: Routledge 2010
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