Abstract
What has the dispositional analysis of properties and laws (e.g. Molnar, Powers,OxfordUniversityPress,Oxford,2003;Mumford,Lawsinnature,Routledge, London,2004; Bird, Nature's metaphysics, Clarendon Press, Oxford,2007)toofferto thescientificunderstandingofphysicalproperties?—Thearticleprovidesananswerto this question for the case of spacetime points and their metrical properties in General Relativity. The analysis shows that metrical properties are not 'powers', i.e. they can- not be understood as producing the effects of spacetime on matter with metaphysical necessity. Instead they possess categorical characteristics which, in connection with specific laws, explain those effects. Thus, the properties of spacetime do not favor the metaphysics of powers with respect to properties and laws.
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