Disposition Ascriptions

Philosophical Studies 176 (7):1667-1692 (2019)
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Abstract

I argue that disposition ascriptions—claims like ‘the glass is fragile’—are semantically equivalent to possibility claims: they are true when the given object manifests the disposition in at least one of the relevant possible worlds.

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Simona Aimar
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