But, under the system of the German civil code, a disposition is irrevocable if it is expressed in a hereditary pact (Erbvertrag) made with a beneficiary or even with a third person.
Manifestations of such a disposition are observable and hence ripe for empirical investigation.
The claim that a given person has such a disposition is thus a claim about the state of a physical object.
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.
This affection is a certain kind of alteration through which a disposition is perfected in other words, the potentiality of the sense organ to receive a certain quality is actualized (DSF 61 62).
Even though such a disposition is not always externally manifested, Lipps suggests that it is always present as an inner tendency giving rise to similar kinaesthetic sensations in the observer as felt by the observed target.
Moreover, to possess, fully, such a disposition is to possess full or perfect virtue, which is rare, and there are a number of ways of falling short of this ideal (Athanassoulis 2000).
Such a disposition is the result of false opinions regarding the importance of being injured or slighted, the effect these should have on our well-being, and the desirability or even pleasurability of taking revenge.
But, this type of a disposition is not for everyone.
According to Merriam-Webster, a disposition is the typical attitude or mood we have each day.
