another Levi post

Here’s ANOTHER GOOD ONE by Levi.

Among other things, Levi zeroes in on one of our main points of disagreement:

“I refuse the move whereby an object is its relations, following Harman in the thesis that no object can ever be reduced to or undermined by its relations. And I do this, contra Harman, by distinguishing between the powers of an object and the qualities of an object. Many, but not all, of the local manifestations belonging to an object are what I call exo-qualities. These are qualities that only emerge in relation. Hence the qualification ‘exo.’ However, the proper being of an object, I argue, consists of its powers or what an object can do.”

Like Levi, I would distinguish between the “exo” (relational) and the “endo” (non-relational).

However, it seems like the endo-qualities of an object, for Levi, are simply its p