Abstract

To replace the material conditional of the definiens by a subjunctive locution, i.e., "If x were placed on scale S at t, S's pointer would move to '5' at t" is indeed intuitively more adequate, but such a locution is itself not included in the repertoire of E as thus far described, while its reducibility to this repertoire has not been shown. Thus if dispositional terms cannot be directly defined in E, their subjunctive interpretation is simply irrelevant, at present, to their reduction to E.