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Dispositions and powers

In: Cambridge elements. Elements in metaphysics

Friend, Toby; Kimpton-Nye, Samuel

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As we understand them, dispositions are relatively uncontroversial 'predicatory' properties had by objects disposed in certain ways. By contrast, powers are hypothetical 'ontic' properties posited in order to explain dispositional behaviour. Chapter 1 outlines this distinction in more detail. Chapter 2 offers a summary of the issues surrounding analysis of dispositions and various strategies in contemporary literature to address them, including one of our own. Chapter 3 describes some of the important questions facing the metaphysics of powers including why they're worth positing, and how they might metaphysically explain laws of nature and modality. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Dispositions and powers

In: Elements in metaphysics

Friend, Toby; Kimpton-Nye, Samuel
Friend, Toby; Kimpton-Nye, Samuel

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Disposition (Philosophy)Power (Philosophy)

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English

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Cambridge University Press

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9781009118910, 9781009113014

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