We notice patterns in what might possibly be going on with us, and some of these patterns we use to identify ourselves: in terms of our talents, skills, capabilities, traits, dispositions, habits, inclinations, and tendencies to action and inaction.
However, Kant was favourably disposed, at least in his early years, towards Leibniz's doctrine of confused omniscience, and he essentially accepts Leibniz's conception of the mind as innately stocked with, as Leibniz expresses it, "inclinations, dispositions, tendencies or natural potentials" (A 52).
These aren't so much skills as tendencies — inclinations — that prove to be every bit as consequential as the stuff of rankings and record books.
Representations on the one hand, and tendencies, inclinations, or strivings on the other, according to Leibniz.
To gain access to your experience, I not only have to check my own experience at the door, I must part with the accessories of my identity -- the habits, tendencies, inclinations, and, yes, prejudices that give my experience its gravitational pull.
However, McGeer (1996, 2008; McGeer and Pettit 2002) puts considerable emphasis on self-shaping, writing that "we learn to use our intentional self-ascriptions to instill or reinforce tendencies and inclinations that fit with these ascriptions, even though such tendencies and inclinations may at best have been only nascent at the time we first made the judgments" (1996, 510).
Grace has the power to alter our emotional feelings, our tendencies, our inclinations and our emotions.
This particular supposition is linked to another, more general one, that Bodin had a truly reformed religiosity, coexisting with his other judaising tendencies and inclinations towards natural religion.
His friends swore he didn't express any deviant sexual tendencies or inclinations.
Zuckerberg designed Facebook to be a conduit for its users' stories, allowing it to tap into the public's narcissistic tendencies and voyeuristic inclinations.
