Parke's role as the good-natured interlocutor seems to be an essential component of the project, a disposition on display in this cheeky description of his imagined time spent with Tolstoy: He also proved an appalling husband, hated Shakespeare, never came to terms with his sexual appetite and yet had a profound influence on the non-violence of the young Gandhi.
A disposition, on Stevenson's account, is a complex causal network consisting of (i) stimuli, (ii) responses, (iii) contextual or "attendant" circumstances of the stimuli, which are subject to occasional or even frequent change, and (iv) the "bases" of the disposition, which are the set of circumstances that are subject to much less frequent change.
It was then fanned on talk radio and Fox News using the rhetorical red flag of mandated Health Care, but clearly there was a disposition on the part of white working class voters to distrust Obama.
Prominent examples in the literature include a desire to drink a saucer of mud or a can of paint, and a disposition to turn on radios whenever they are off.
Many famous and colorful examples about people who want to eat saucers of mud, or count blades of grass, or who have a disposition to turn on radios are offered to show that not every desire or motivation is of the right kind to generate practical reasons.
Second, Chinese traditional culture is based on Confucian principles, which place "great emphasis on composed, reverential behavior that focused on a disposition of solemnity, self-control, and personal restraint of PA" [ 48] (p. 161) and successful scholarship [ 49].
Part of the faulty calculation is a disposition to focus on revenue and ignore many of the costs – particularly the indirect ones, needed to address increases in traffic and thus pollution; crime, littering and so on.
PBCS is the 5-item subscale for a "disposition to focus on internal body sensations", "being aware of interoceptive feedback", and being "sensitive to changes in bodily states".
Furthermore, we used the first questionnaire dealing with interoception: the Private Body Consciousness Scale (PBCS, [ 39]), which measures a disposition to focus on internal processes, a sensitivity for bodily changes, and the awareness of interoceptive feedback.
It doesn't follow from one's having a reason to have a disposition that one has a reason to manifest that disposition on every particular occasion.
I've dropped a good 50 pounds, quit drugs, gotten married, had two kids, adopted a rosier disposition on life... in short, I am a far cry from the raving lunatic I once was.
