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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'fragments/reports' and 'Dispositional Essentialism Grounds Laws of Nature?'

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / c. Dispositions as conditional

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A 'finkish' disposition is one that is lost immediately after the appropriate stimulus [Corry]

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An 'antidote' allows a manifestation to begin, but then blocks it [Corry]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / d. Dispositions as occurrent

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If a disposition is never instantiated, it shouldn't be part of our theory of nature [Corry]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 3. Experiment

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Maybe an experiment unmasks an essential disposition, and reveals its regularities [Corry]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

541	Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature

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Dispositional essentialism says fundamental laws of nature are strict, not ceteris paribus [Corry]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

542	Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias]