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Single Idea 23702
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions
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Full Idea
A 'trick' can behave like a disposition, as when someone says 'abracadabra' over a hot cup of coffee, stimulating it (?) to gradually cool down.
Gist of Idea
A 'trick' can look like a stimulus for a disposition which will happen without it
Source
Friend/Kimpton-Nye (Dispositions and Powers [2023], 2.2.4)
Book Ref
Friend/Kimpton-Nye: 'Dispositions and Powers' [CUP 2023], p.14
A Reaction
This is like Humean constant conjunction which is obviously not a cause, such as night following day. Only a problem is this cup of coffee is seen in isolation from all other cups of coffee. Post hoc propter hoc does not apply to all stimuli!
The
15 ideas
from Friend/Kimpton-Nye
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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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23707
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Powers are properties which necessitate dispositions
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23706
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Hume's Dictum says no connections are necessary - so mass and spacetime warping could separate
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23708
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Humeans see properties as having no more essential features and relations than their distinctness
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye, by PG]
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23709
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Dispositions are what individuate properties, and they constitute their essence
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23710
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Dispositionalism says modality is in the powers of this world, not outsourced to possible worlds
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23711
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A power is a property which consists entirely of dispositions
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23712
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Powers are qualitative properties which fully ground dispositions
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23714
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Dispositional essentialism (unlike the grounding view) says only fundamental properties are powers
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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