Ginsborg (2011a, b; 2012) argues that to mean something by a linguistic expression, the speaker must not only be disposed to use it in a certain way but also be disposed to take the way she is disposed to use it to be "primitively appropriate" (see above, 2.1.1).
Using a term with understanding requires more than just being disposed to use it a certain way, Ginsborg argues; it requires understanding that it has a certain meaning.
Using an expression with understanding requires grasping its meaning, and this involves not only being disposed to use it in a certain way, but also being disposed to 'take it' that the expression ought to be used the way one is disposed to use it.
Sometimes a term t denotes the concept C1 rather than C2 not because we are disposed to use t as if it meant C1 rather than C2, but simply because C1 is a more natural concept.
Even her movements could pose a political problem, as Francis Walsingham explained: "I see not her Majesty disposed to use the services of my Lord of Leicester.
You go to an event like Comic-Con and there's an audience of thousands of people who are pre-disposed to using the Internet and talking about the things that they either like or don't like.
To be properly committed, Millar suggests, S has to be disposed to adjust her use if she discovers that it is not in keeping with the meaning of the expression (as when S uses 'arcane' to mean ancient).
Research participants in another study were also more positively disposed to non-consensual use of data when they better understood the impact of stringent consent requirements [ 29].
7. Horwich (1998, 85 6) suggests that cases of this sort can be handled by adding to his account a clause which makes it sufficient to mean (for example) dog by 'dog' that one be disposed to defer to experts whose use of the term is explained by the canonical basic acceptance regularity, so long as one's use is 'close enough' to theirs.
Similarly, as a second-person imperative sentence, 'Do so as well' is passively disposed, Stevenson thinks, to be used by a speaker or writer who desires her audience either to share her favorable attitude or to engage in the particular kind of behavior demonstrated, and is actively disposed to effect that particular attitude or behavior of a hearer or reader.
