Sentence examples for set of dispositions from inspiring English sources

"Method" can mean roughly what it signifies in Descartes's Discourse on Method, "a consistent form of investigation founded on a set of internally consistent precepts about what is true"; but it can also mean something less rigid: "the way you happen to do things, manifesting a complex and untheorisable set of dispositions".

Given his view that knowing a language is just a matter of having a certain set of behavioral dispositions, Skinner believed that learning a language just amounts to acquiring that set of dispositions.

In fact, we have evolved a set of dispositions that allow us to treat other members of our tribe or society as "honorary relatives", thereby unlocking a range of emotions that we would normally reserve for other family members.

(1959 42) Secondly, Chomsky argued — and here we see his first invocation of the famous 'poverty of the stimulus' argument, to be discussed in more detail in §2.2 below — it is unclear that conditioning could even in principle give rise to a set of dispositions rich enough to generate the full range of a person's linguistic behavior.

A behavioral strategy is, after all, simply a complex behavioral disposition, which involves responding in a variety of specific ways to a set of environmental cues, most of which would be achieved by having an appropriate psychological mechanism or mechanisms underlying the set of dispositions.

They were also unable to provide "a full set of dispositions" (a tally of how many calls resulted in completed interviews, no answers, refusals to be interviewed, and so on).

Second, the full report includes both the final response rate (25%) and a full set of disposition data -- a rarity for public poll releases.

Eschewing talk of the mental as unscientific, Skinner argued that 'knowing' a language is really just a matter of having a certain set of behavioral dispositions: dispositions to say (and do) appropriate things in response to the world and the utterances of others.

Since Stevenson suggests that he might explain the compositionality of atomic sentences in terms of functions from the dispositions of a sentence's parts to a set of resulting dispositions, it is plausible that he might also wish to extend his theory in a similar way to explain the compositionality of complex sentences.

Project Zero's research considers civic agency as a multifaceted capability, a set of skills and dispositions to support one to participate in today's interconnected world.

Our results show that Australian sport's drug-use regulations are driven by a set of values and dispositions that views sport as an instrument for shaping the character of its participants, and drugs as a threat to sport's moral fabric and good standing.