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Ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', '64: Gryllus - on Rationality in Animals' and 'Dispositional Essentialism Grounds Laws of Nature?'

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

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Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / c. Dispositions as conditional

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An 'antidote' allows a manifestation to begin, but then blocks it [Corry]

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A 'finkish' disposition is one that is lost immediately after the appropriate stimulus [Corry]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / d. Dispositions as occurrent

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If a disposition is never instantiated, it shouldn't be part of our theory of nature [Corry]