Rather, it was "a repertoire of skills and dispositions that were very different from those of the pre-agrarian world".
Other issues concern whether the skills, abilities, and dispositions that are constitutive of critical thinking are general or subject-specific.
Biologists are also quick to emphasize the role environment plays in activating genetic dispositions that might otherwise never be expressed, or mitigating those that are.
Many Udasi beliefs, devotional practices, and modes of living are in clear opposition to mainstream Sikh doctrine, reflecting ascetic and iconic dispositions that are generally identified as Hindu.
For we think of character traits as stable dispositions that tend to influence behavior regardless of external provocation; not invariably, of course, but often enough.
If highly qualified teachers are having difficulty ensuring the success of our needy learners, what will be the qualifications, requirements and dispositions that should be demanded of the tutors?
Taking into consideration a range of factors, she links the French "malaise" to "the ensemble of psychological and ideological mechanisms and dispositions that constitute the process of the transformation of experiences into well-being" — in other words, French culture.
Nevertheless, they are intimately connected with the most powerful motive forces in children's minds, and give notice of dispositions that will lead to later eventualities in their lives or to future neuroses.
Thus, humans have freedom in two senses: they can choose between the alternatives that result from their dispositions, and they can change or develop the dispositions that present them with these alternatives.
Hagel also says games can cultivate "dispositions" that are valuable in a corporate setting.
Alternatively, we could categorize theories of blame according to those psychological states or dispositions that are identified with blame.
