So it is committed to viewing metaphorical understanding as a process in which how we are already disposed to experience, think about, and otherwise respond to the primary and secondary subjects informs how we freshly experience, think about, and respond to words such as "floor".
The usual answer is something along the lines of the account of appearance properties in Shoemaker 2002: something is red-for-Nonvert iff it is disposed to cause experiences with \(R\) in perceivers of Nonvert's kind.
Claim (b) above, which identifies the contents of an experience with contents of beliefs one is disposed to form in having the experience, assumes that the contents of both kinds of state can be the same.
Given this third position, a natural accompanying conception of the contents of an experience is that they are the same as the contents of beliefs that one is disposed to form in having the experience (claim (b) above).
If opinions vary among regions, there is one shared hope: that Americans emerge from the experience less disposed to lecture everybody else.
Perhaps America, a country that from its founding principles forward represents the triumph of hope over experience, is collectively disposed to these flights of the imagination.It's no surprise that as Mr Obama's rhetoric has come back to earth, so have his approval ratings.
In this case you would not have any auditory experience of music, despite being disposed to believe that music is playing.
According to one type of argument that high-level properties can be represented in experience, experiences can be theory-laden, in the sense that being disposed to recognize an object or property influences the phenomenology and content of the experience.
Prudence, indeed, may dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind is disposed to suffer scientists and their findings.
We know from the South African experience that when a nation is not disposed to rid itself of the stain of discrimination and oppression, outside pressure in the form of BDS can assist it in doing so.
