Sentence examples for dispositions of objects from inspiring English sources

According to dispositional account of sounds, "sounds are dispositions of objects to vibrate in response to being stimulated.

Like natural frequencies, these attack patterns are relatively stable dispositions of objects to vibrate when thwacked.

Attacks and decays are stable dispositions of objects to vibrate when thwacked, just as natural frequencies of vibration are" (Kulvicki 2008b, p. 14).

Since Descartes clearly held that sensible qualties are not the forms of material things but rather modes of the mind, the only sense in which sensible qualites could be "in" the various dispositions of objects is in the causal sense, that is, as their effects.

In visiting these ­places, Kemal's sense of what is possible in the disposition of objects grows ever deeper.

And finally, traditional formal compositions were abandoned in favour of a more casual and less contrived disposition of objects within the picture frame.

The results can be used to inform the design and disposition of objects within 3D VEs for the study of the control of prehension and for upper limb rehabilitation.

In contrast, the dorsal stream, in occipitoparietal cortex, deals with the moment-to-moment information about the location and disposition of objects, enabling us, for example, to compute the real size of the orange to scale our grasp appropriately in flight.

White light contains waves of all lengths in roughly the same proportion and thus samples adequately the dispositions of the object to reflect some of them.

In the latter case, the more substantial passage, he gives a somewhat Scotistic definition: "Intuitive and abstractive cognition are not distinguished according to having a species or not, but only according to the disposition of the object, because if the object is present, the species represents it intuitively; if absent, it represents it abstractively".

Thus, in the same way that sensible qualities are nothing outside us but the local dispositions of matter, sensible objects are nothing outside us but assemblages of local dispositions of matter.