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    It is not the case that Power is the quality that, when coupled with exertion, necessitates a particular effect.

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    • 1.Dispositional properties like fragility or solubility can be real and possessed even when never manifested, as Ryle and later Mumford argue.
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    • 2.A power can exist and be genuinely exerted yet fail to produce its characteristic effect when interfered with by countervailing causal factors.
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    • 3.Reid's necessitation condition conflates the intrinsic possession of a power with the unimpeded exercise of that power in a favorable environment.
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    • 1.Hume's regularity analysis shows that causal necessity is never observed in singular instances but only inferred from constant conjunction across cases.
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    • 2.If 'necessitation' is built into the definition of power by stipulation, the claim becomes analytically true but empirically vacuous, explaining nothing about causation in nature.
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    • 1.It is a contradiction to say that an entity has the power to do something, exerts that power, and yet the effect fails to come about.
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    • 2.If the effect fails to come about when the entity exerts itself, that shows the entity only seemed to have the power, but did not actually have it.
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