Full Idea
Dispositions are attacked as either just saying how something will behave (logical fictions about regularities of events), or as primitive pre-scientific terms like 'phlogiston', place-holders used when we are ignorant of real properties.
Gist of Idea
Dispositions are attacked as mere regularities of events, or place-holders for unknown properties
Source
Stephen Mumford (Dispositions [1998], 01.1)
Book Reference
Mumford,Stephen: 'Dispositions' [OUP 1998], p.4
A Reaction
[compressed] The first view he calls the Ryle-Wittgenstein view, which seems to track back to Hume.