Full Idea
The conclusion that disposition ascriptions are not equivalent to stronger-than-material conditionals is largely to be accepted.
Gist of Idea
Dispositions are not equivalent to stronger-than-material conditionals
Source
Stephen Mumford (Dispositions [1998], 04.7)
Book Reference
Mumford,Stephen: 'Dispositions' [OUP 1998], p.81
A Reaction
[he attributes the view to C.B.Martin 1994] It is hard to see how to describe a disposition in anything other than conditional terms. Mumford's 'functional role' probably has to be described conditionally. It is how the conditional cashes out.
Related Idea
Idea 14309 Truth-functional conditionals can't distinguish whether they are causal or accidental [Mumford]