Dispositions Revisited
- 14 March 1973
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 40 (1) , 59-74
- https://doi.org/10.1086/288496
Abstract
Subjunctive conditionals have their uses, but constituting the meaning of dispositional predicates is not one of them. More germane is the analysis of dispositions in terms of “bases”—except that past efforts to maintain an ontic gap between dispositions and their bases, while not wholly misguided, have failed to appreciate the semantic birthright of dispositional concepts as a species of theoretical construct in primitive science.Keywords
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