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).
A virtue is a complex disposition comprising sub-dispositions to notice, construe, think, desire, and act in characteristic ways.
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.
Just as in non-human behavioral ecology, behavioral strategies in HBE are usually described as complex behavioral dispositions.
Searle raises the question of just what we are attributing in attributing understanding to other minds, saying that it is more than complex behavioral dispositions.
However, HBEs can get around this problem, by pointing out that local patterns of overt behavior are manifestations of more general strategies; differences in the environment cause the manifestations of different elements of these complex behavioral dispositions humans possess.
Cells in living tissues are organized into a 3D geometry considerably more complex than dispositions observed in conventional 2D cultures.
Nonetheless, oral administration of chemotherapy agents by nanoparticulate delivery technology still faces great challenges owing to the multiple biobarriers ranging from poorly physicochemical properties of drugs, to complex gastrointestinal disposition and to presystemic metabolism.
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.
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with a strong and complex genetic disposition [1], but still with a largely unknown etiology.
