On an Alleged Non‐Equivalence Between Dispositions and Disjunctive Properties

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 53 (1):77-81 (2002)
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This paper shows that grounded dispositions are necessarily coextensive with disjunctive properties. It responds to several objections against this thesis, and then shows how to construct a disjunctive property necessarily coextensive with an arbitrary grounded disposition.

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10.1093/bjps/53.1.77

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