Single Idea 17535

[catalogued under 10. Modality / A. Necessity / 1. Types of Modality]

Full Idea

We contend that dispositionality involves a non-alethic, sui generis, irreducible modality.

Gist of Idea

Dispositionality has its own distinctive type of modality

Source

S.Mumford/R.Lill Anjum (Dispositional Modality [2011], 1)


A Reaction

This is a lovely bold proposal, and seems to be supported by Werner Heisenberg, in Idea 17534.

Related Idea

Idea 17534 A 'probability wave' is a quantitative version of Aristotle's potential, a mid-way type of reality [Heisenberg]