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Single Idea 23710
[filed under theme 10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / e. Against possible worlds
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Full Idea
Dispositionalism does not 'outsource' modality to other possible worlds, it roots modality in the powers of concrete individuals in this world.
Gist of Idea
Dispositionalism says modality is in the powers of this world, not outsourced to possible worlds
Source
Friend/Kimpton-Nye (Dispositions and Powers [2023], 3.3.3)
Book Ref
Friend/Kimpton-Nye: 'Dispositions and Powers' [CUP 2023], p.54
A Reaction
Possible worlds are to abolish modality, by treating it as the non-modal facts of different worlds. I see the dispositional view as vastly superior, because the world is awash with vivid and undeniable potentialities, and one world is better ontology.
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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