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Full Idea
Dispositions are the substantive laws, not, as for Armstrong, of nature in general, but of the nature of individual entities whose dispositional properties they are.
Gist of Idea
Dispositions are not general laws, but laws of the natures of individual entities
Source
Ullin T. Place (Intentionality and the Physical: reply to Mumford [1999], 6)
Book Ref
-: 'The Philosophical Quarterly' [-], p.230
A Reaction
[He notes that Nancy Cartwright 1989 agrees with him] I like this a lot. I tend to denegrate 'laws', because of their dubious ontological status, but this restores laws to the picture, in the place where they belong, in the stuff of the world.
18088 | Intentionality is the mark of dispositions, not of the mental [Place] |
18089 | Dispositions are not general laws, but laws of the natures of individual entities [Place] |