Sentence examples for having a dispositional property from inspiring English sources

It persists in motion by having a dispositional property, 'impetus' or 'elasticity', which is the continuous cause of subsequent motions.

Shoemaker (1994) defends the view that a color experience represents a dispositional property, viz., the disposition to cause an experience of just that type.

Furthermore, if Hume regards beauty as a dispositional property, he has a model close at hand in Hutcheson's analysis.

Both Carnap and Ryle emphasized that many mental features or properties have a dispositional character.

Suppose that Hume regards beauty as a dispositional property.

The sentiment is incorporated into the analysis, but the sentiment is not itself a dispositional property.

'Impetus' (vega) is a dispositional property (saṃskāra), as is 'elasticity' (sthitisthāpaka) (TS 80).

But benevolence is also the objective basis of a dispositional property, namely, a tendency to produce a new simple idea in the savingly converted.

If beauty is a dispositional property, then one arrives at the idea of beauty by associating particular causes with particular effects under specific conditions.

3See also Ng et al. (2006), who note that "some people have a dispositional tendency to believe they have more control over the external environment than others" (p.1058).

(The whole process might be likened to that of someone who, having learned to swim, has a dispositional capacity to swim, which they exercise on certain occasions).