Full Idea
Spatiotemporal relations are a prime example of properties that are difficult to understand in dispositional terms.
Gist of Idea
How can spatiotemporal relations be understood in dispositional terms?
Source
Barbara Vetter (Potentiality [2015], 1.6)
Book Reference
Vetter,Barbara: 'Potentiality: from Dispositions to Modality' [OUP 2015], p.25
A Reaction
[Vetter refers to A.Bird 2007 Ch.8 for an attempt] One approach would be to question whether they are 'properties'. I don't think of relations as properties, even if they are predicates. Is space a property of something?