Dispositional Statements
- 1 July 1955
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 22 (3) , 175-193
- https://doi.org/10.1086/287422
Abstract
Because statements like ‘This object is soluble in aqua regia’ involve the causal modalities, we call them causal dispositional statements. Now while this involvement has long been recognized, no thorough examination of its exact nature has ever been made. One purpose of this paper is to begin such an examination. In Sec. 2 we will suggest an analysis of causal dispositional statements, and in Sec. 3 we will discuss some philosophic issues to which this analysis is relevant.Keywords
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