A behavioral strategy is, after all, simply a complex behavioral disposition, which involves responding in a variety of specific ways to a set of environmental cues, most of which would be achieved by having an appropriate psychological mechanism or mechanisms underlying the set of dispositions.
For this, first-generation NBPOCs owe great respect to the labors of generations of African-Americans as, without it, their complex disposition as children of immigrants would be exponentially more difficult.
Cognitive states, like attitudes, are complex dispositions.
Complex dispositions (e.g., the fleshy, sinuous elasticity of the esophagus) are postulated from these material substrates that have relevance to, but do not determine the nature of, these organismal parts because functional strictures ultimately govern them (the fleshy, sinuous elasticity of the esophagus is for the sake of repeated dilation during food ingestion).
Thus, for Stevenson, the meaning of a term is the "conjunction" or union of two dispositions, one "active" disposition to evoke psychological states of a hearer, another "passive" disposition to be used to express the psychological states of a speaker, where a disposition is a complex causal network of stimuli, responses, attendant circumstances, and basis.
Last October, senior Obama officials anonymously unveiled to the Washington Post their newly minted "disposition matrix", a complex computer system that will be used to determine how a terrorist suspect will be "disposed of": indefinite detention, prosecution in a real court, assassination-by-CIA-drones, etc.
The liver is the primary organ in xenobiotic disposition, through a complex system involving a variety of drug transporters and metabolizing enzymes.
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with a strong and complex genetic disposition [1], but still with a largely unknown etiology.
"Method" can mean roughly what it signifies in Descartes's Discourse on Method, "a consistent form of investigation founded on a set of internally consistent precepts about what is true"; but it can also mean something less rigid: "the way you happen to do things, manifesting a complex and untheorisable set of dispositions".
Given the way that the final state (e.g., knowledge of English) outstrips the data that are available to children, we can only postulate that the human mind brings to language acquisition a complex set of language-specific dispositions.
