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Single Idea 15800

[catalogued under 9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 1. Structure of an Object]

Full Idea

Every atomic event in the world's history is a manifestation of some dispositional property of the world and every physical object is an instantiation of some set of dispositions; hence, every structural property is dispositional in kind.

Gist of Idea

All events and objects are dispositional, and hence all structural properties are dispositional

Source

J.H. Fetzer (A World of Dispositions [1977], 5)

Book Reference

-: 'Synthese' [-], p.417


A Reaction

I quite like this drastic view, but there remains the intuition that there must always be something which has the disposition. That may be because I have not yet digested the lessons of modern physics.