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Ideas of Friend/Kimpton-Nye, by Text

[British, fl. 2023, both at University of Bristol.]

2023	Dispositions and Powers

2.1.1

p.5

23698

Dispositions have directed behaviour which occurs if triggered

2.2.1

p.10

23699

'Masked' dispositions fail to react because something intervenes

2.2.2

p.11

23700

A disposition is 'altered' when the stimulus reverses the disposition

2.2.3

p.12

23701

A disposition is 'mimicked' if a different cause produces that effect from that stimulus

2.2.4

p.14

23702

A 'trick' can look like a stimulus for a disposition which will happen without it

2.3.3

p.24

23703

Some dispositions manifest themselves without a stimulus

2.3.5

p.26

23704

We could analyse dispositions as 'possibilities', with no mention of a stimulus

3.2

p.45

23706

Hume's Dictum says no connections are necessary - so mass and spacetime warping could separate

3.2

p.46

23707

Powers are properties which necessitate dispositions

3.3.1

p.48

23708

Humeans see properties as having no more essential features and relations than their distinctness [PG]

3.3.1

p.50

23709

Dispositions are what individuate properties, and they constitute their essence

3.3.3

p.54

23710

Dispositionalism says modality is in the powers of this world, not outsourced to possible worlds

3.4

p.55

23711

A power is a property which consists entirely of dispositions

3.4

p.57

23712

Powers are qualitative properties which fully ground dispositions

3.7

p.71

23714

Dispositional essentialism (unlike the grounding view) says only fundamental properties are powers