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Full Idea
The three platitudes about dispositions are that 1) they are directed towards some specific behaviour, 2) they can be triggered under specific conditions, and 3) their directedness is modal, meaning not 'when it is triggered' but 'it it were triggered'.
Gist of Idea
Dispositions have directed behaviour which occurs if triggered
Source
Friend/Kimpton-Nye (Dispositions and Powers [2023], 2.1.1)
Book Ref
Friend/Kimpton-Nye: 'Dispositions and Powers' [CUP 2023], p.5
A Reaction
[PG summary] This is the preliminary to an attempt at a precise formal analysis, covering a number of hypothetical problem cases. 3) is the counterfactual rather than material conditional. Seems accurate.