The meta-grounding theory of powerful qualities

Abstract A recent, seemingly appealing version of the powerful qualities view defines properties’ qualitativity via an essentialist claim and their powerfulness a grounding claim. Roughly, this approach holds that properties are because they have qualitative essences, while instances or essences ground causal-modal facts. I argue theory should be replaced with one in terms both ‘meta-grounding’ Specifically, formulate defend on which just if those at least partially dispositions virtue .