5 The incidence of stroke has declined due to treatment with oral anticoagulant therapy, and is around 1.4%/year in patients with AF. 6, 7 However, AF is often associated with advanced age and concomitant disease that disposes to stroke: hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes and heart failure.
Hypermethylation in the prostate might help to establish a preneoplastic state that disposes to carcinoma development.
Hutcheson claimed that we possess, in addition to our external senses, a special moral sense that disposes us to respond to benevolence with the distinctive feelings of approbation.
To overcome the bias that disposes us to take logically integrated systems of beliefs as the point of departure [ 41] a greater focus on the syncretism involved in interpretations of sickness is necessary.
Those finding self-deception morally objectionable, generally assume that self-deception or, at least, the character that disposes us to it, is under our control to some degree.
He can, in addition, be in a belief state of the first sort while also being in a belief state that disposes him to utter the negation of the second.
For instance, a belief state that would cause John to utter 'He is making a mess' can be classified with the character of that sentence, whereas a belief state that disposes John to utter 'I am making mess' can be classified with the character of that sentence.
Furthermore, self-deception also manifests certain weakness of character that dispose us to react to fear, anxiety, or the desire for pleasure in ways that bias our belief acquisition and retention in ways that serve these emotions and desires rather than accuracy.
Intellectual courage and caution are the virtues that dispose us to respond appropriately to perceived threats in our intellectual lives, courage disposing us to not be unduly intimidated, caution disposing us to not take inappropriate risks in achieving intellectual goods (219).
We define the concept of career dispositions that emerge as the joint set of attitudes and generic skills that dispose individuals to engage profitably with learning from new professional environment in order to be able to adapt to career changes and to manage their career growth.
While deadly sins are those actions and omissions that 'break faith' with one's relationship with God, cardinal virtues are moral and intellectual habits that dispose us to reason well, informing the 'first principles' of a power to act.
