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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]
| 18797 | Modalities do not augment our concepts; they express their relation to cognition [Kant] |
| 12205 | There are two families of modal notions, metaphysical and epistemic, of equal strength [Edgington] |
| 14625 | Necessity is counterfactually implied by its negation; possibility does not counterfactually imply its negation [Williamson] |
| 10709 | Priority is a modality, arising from collections and members [Potter] |
| 14528 | Maybe modal thought is unavoidable, as a priori recognition of necessary truth-preservation in reasoning [Hale/Hoffmann,A] |
| 17535 | Dispositionality has its own distinctive type of modality [Mumford/Anjum] |
| 14579 | Dispositionality is the core modality, with possibility and necessity as its extreme cases [Mumford/Anjum] |
| 14580 | Dispositions may suggest modality to us - as what might not have been, and what could have been [Mumford/Anjum] |