The Russians have never agreed to this option because they say it would not constitute "disposition".
Virtues consist in part in dispositions, but are not wholly constituted by dispositions.
Considering again Stevenson's own example, the stimulating power of coffee is a disposition constituted by a complex causal network consisting of: stimuli, such as the variable amounts of coffee ingested; and responses, such as the resulting changes in energy, attention, anxiety, or irritation.
In that case, it would rather be the probability distribution conditional on a complete specification of the values of the hidden variables that should be taken to constitute irreducible dispositions of the system concerned.
The OCAI resolution states that "any use of funds received form disposition of works of art in the city art collection to satisfy city creditors" would constitute an "abrogation, cancellation" or other breach of the operating contract.
The deceased's intended disposition remains imperfectly constituted and the intended beneficiary's claim is thus weaker than the residuary legatee's.
Prinz acknowledges that non-sentimentalists may have a story to tell about all of these phenomena, but the simplest explanation is that moral concepts are themselves constituted by emotions or emotional dispositions (Prinz 2007 21 477).
In any case, in addition to the "active" disposition of a sign to evoke particular psychological states of a hearer, the meaning of a sign is also constituted in part by a "passive" disposition to be used to express the psychological states of a speaker (1944, 57 58).
As we saw earlier, such dispositions constitute the Mohists' basic conception of knowledge.
One of her innovations was to suggest that gender is constituted by action and speech by behaviour in which gendered traits and dispositions are exhibited or acted out.
