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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'A World of Dispositions' and 'On the Very Idea of a Third Dogma'

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6 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / e. Dispositions as potential

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All structures are dispositional, objects are dispositions sets, and events manifest dispositions [Fetzer]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 1. Structure of an Object

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All events and objects are dispositional, and hence all structural properties are dispositional [Fetzer]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

490	Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / a. Translation

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Translation is too flimsy a notion to support theories of cultural incommensurability [Quine]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 2. Defining Kinds

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Kinds are arrangements of dispositions [Fetzer]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 3. Laws and Generalities

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Lawlike sentences are general attributions of disposition to all members of some class [Fetzer]