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Single Idea 14293
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions
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Full Idea
Dispositions are ascribed to at least three distinguishable classes of things: objects, substances, and persons.
Gist of Idea
Dispositions are ascribed to at least objects, substances and persons
Source
Stephen Mumford (Dispositions [1998], 01.1)
Book Ref
Mumford,Stephen: 'Dispositions' [OUP 1998], p.3
A Reaction
Are dispositions not also ascribed to properties? Magnetism has a disposition to attract iron filings?
The
25 ideas
with the same theme
[idea of a disposition towards certain behaviour]:
16735
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In the 17th century, 'disposition' usually just means the spatial arrangement of parts
[Boyle, by Pasnau]
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14292
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Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice
[Goodman]
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16948
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Once we know the mechanism of a disposition, we can eliminate 'similarity'
[Quine]
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15723
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Either dispositions rest on structures, or we keep saying 'all things being equal'
[Quine]
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15469
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Dispositions in action can be destroyed, be recovered, or remain unchanged
[Martin,CB]
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14330
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To be realists about dispositions, we can only discuss them through their categorical basis
[Armstrong]
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5458
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Nearly all fundamental properties of physics are dispositional
[Ellis]
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13585
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The most fundamental properties of nature (mass, charge, spin ...) all seem to be dispositions
[Ellis]
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16452
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Dispositions have modal properties, of which properties things would have counterfactually
[Stalnaker]
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14308
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We can bring dispositions into existence, as in creating an identifier
[Dennett, by Mumford]
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11943
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Dispositions can be causes, so they must be part of the actual world
[Molnar]
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7025
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Are a property's dispositions built in, or contingently added?
[Heil]
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14293
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Dispositions are ascribed to at least objects, substances and persons
[Mumford]
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14298
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Dispositions can be contrasted either with occurrences, or with categorical properties
[Mumford]
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14326
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Unlike categorical bases, dispositions necessarily occupy a particular causal role
[Mumford]
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14583
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Dispositionality is a natural selection function, picking outcomes from the range of possibilities
[Mumford/Anjum]
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16788
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Instead of adding Aristotelian forms to physical stuff, one could add dispositions
[Pasnau]
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19021
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I have an 'iterated ability' to learn the violin - that is, the ability to acquire that ability
[Vetter]
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23698
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Dispositions have directed behaviour which occurs if triggered
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23699
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'Masked' dispositions fail to react because something intervenes
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23700
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A disposition is 'altered' when the stimulus reverses the disposition
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23701
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A disposition is 'mimicked' if a different cause produces that effect from that stimulus
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23702
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A 'trick' can look like a stimulus for a disposition which will happen without it
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23703
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Some dispositions manifest themselves without a stimulus
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23704
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We could analyse dispositions as 'possibilities', with no mention of a stimulus
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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