Sentence examples for is disposition from inspiring English sources

When Elinor suggests that she should not accept lavish presents from Willoughby as she hardly knows him, Marianne replies "It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone".

Endocrine/metabolic β-cell function, that is, disposition index as measured during an insulin modified frequently sampled intravenous glucose tolerance (im-FSIGT) test according to Bergman Minimal Model approach.

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

Since we are dealing with quantum physical systems many properties are dispositions (or propensities); hence the name dispositional trope ontology.

He is at pains to stress, notably, that while emotions are dispositions -- character traits, one might say -- they are not sources of a person's actions.

But dispositions are dispositions to bring about certain manifestations.

Unlike emotions, though, virtues are dispositions, not episodes, and so can be possessed without being occurrent.

Descartes wrote that the former qualities are dispositions which depend on size, shape and motion.

Some virtues are virtues of reasoning: some intellectual excellences are dispositions to infer conclusions from premises already believed.

Second, suppose that experiences are dispositions on the part of the subject of the experience to form beliefs.

Pitches might be dispositions to produce certain kinds of experiences, or they might be simple or primitive properties.