Ideas from 'Dispositions and Powers' by Friend/Kimpton-Nye [2023], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Dispositions and Powers' by Friend/Kimpton-Nye [CUP 2023,978-1-009-11301-4]].
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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
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Humeans see properties as having no more essential features and relations than their distinctness [PG]
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Dispositions are what individuate properties, and they constitute their essence
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers
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Powers are properties which necessitate dispositions
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
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Dispositional essentialism (unlike the grounding view) says only fundamental properties are powers
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence
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A power is a property which consists entirely of dispositions
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Powers are qualitative properties which fully ground dispositions
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions
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Dispositions have directed behaviour which occurs if triggered
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'Masked' dispositions fail to react because something intervenes
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A disposition is 'altered' when the stimulus reverses the disposition
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A disposition is 'mimicked' if a different cause produces that effect from that stimulus
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A 'trick' can look like a stimulus for a disposition which will happen without it
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Some dispositions manifest themselves without a stimulus
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We could analyse dispositions as 'possibilities', with no mention of a stimulus
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / e. Against possible worlds
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Dispositionalism says modality is in the powers of this world, not outsourced to possible worlds
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 7. Strictness of Laws
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Hume's Dictum says no connections are necessary - so mass and spacetime warping could separate
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