Kripke's argument is best approached by first considering what is often called a dispositional theory of linguistic meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
This image reflects a "dispositional" diagnosis of our problems, as social psychologists would call it: Our problem is the weak (lacking in will) disposition of people. From Wordnik.com. [Frances Moore Lappe: Our Words Are Killing Us] Reference
We also fall prey to the fundamental attribution error, where we overvalue "dispositional" elements "She's bad at money" and undervalue. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
At any given time, nearly all a person's beliefs are dispositional. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemological Problems of Memory] Reference
Take an allegedly paradigmatic non-dispositional property: triangularity. From Wordnik.com. [Dispositions] Reference
The dispositional options available for the juvenile these I've alluded to above. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Michigan Judge Sentences Nathaniel Abraham to Juvenile Detention - January 13, 2000] Reference
Locke gives the following argument against innate propositions being dispositional. From Wordnik.com. [John Locke] Reference
More specifically, if the content of my F concept is partly dispositional, I cannot. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Knowledge] Reference
The second response is to defend the dispositional theory against Kripke's argument. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
But everyday disposition ascriptions are usually not explicitly dispositional in this way. From Wordnik.com. [Dispositions] Reference
The dispositional property is a power objects have to produce these ideas in our understandings. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Edwards] Reference
Looking for situational rather than dispositional causes of our planet's suffering is empowering. From Wordnik.com. [Frances Moore Lappe: Our Words Are Killing Us] Reference
Surely, my colleagues and I reasoned, here was a place where dispositional evil would be manifest. From Wordnik.com. [New Perspectives on the Psychology of Evil; Why Good People Do Bad Things] Reference
Locke rejects arguments from universal assent and attacks dispositional accounts of innate principles. From Wordnik.com. [John Locke] Reference
S's belief that p between t1 and t2 is at least sometimes only dispositional (i.e., nonoccurrent), and. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemological Problems of Memory] Reference
Advancing a compatibilist thesis, Fara proposes a dispositional analysis of the ability to do otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Compatibilism] Reference
But the situationists are also sometimes guilty of underemphasizing the effects of dispositional differences. From Wordnik.com. [New Perspectives on the Psychology of Evil; Why Good People Do Bad Things] Reference
In order to see what this relation is, we need to take a look at Ryle's discussion of dispositional concepts. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Ryle] Reference
In accordance with Meinong's theory of dispositional properties, a disposition has an actual quality as its foundation. From Wordnik.com. [Salvation Santa] Reference
Mumford's view about the distinction between dispositional and categorical properties can be separated into two components. From Wordnik.com. [Dispositions] Reference
The results of the experiment are said to support situational attributions of behavior rather than dispositional attribution. From Wordnik.com. [DISSING THE FED AND RON PAUL] Reference
So Ryle (on this account) is to be construed as offering a dispositional analysis of mental statements into behavioural ones. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Ryle] Reference
So a dispositional theory seems to hold out the best promise of a theory of intentionality that is compatible with physicalism. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
Second, it seems possible to develop the dispositional theory of linguistic meaning so that it might apply also to intentionality. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
Entailment can secure the dispositional/categorical distinction in a way that does not count all properties as dispositions (see below). From Wordnik.com. [Dispositions] Reference
But benevolence is also the objective basis of a dispositional property, namely, a tendency to produce a new simple idea in the savingly converted. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Edwards] Reference
It will then be a separate question how to transform everyday dispositional predicates into explicitly dispositional phrases (see Choi 2003, 2006). From Wordnik.com. [Dispositions] Reference
The objection, as Fodor (1987: 22) points out, isn't that the program has a dispositional, or potential, belief that it will get its queen out early. From Wordnik.com. [The Language of Thought Hypothesis] Reference
One other important note here: I have required that it be the “same belief” that is at one time occurrent, then dispositional, and then occurent again. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemological Problems of Memory] Reference
Shoemaker (1994a) defends the view that a color experience represents a dispositional property, viz., the disposition to cause an experience of just that type. From Wordnik.com. [Representational Theories of Consciousness] Reference
Instead, according to Martin and Heil, every property is both dispositional and categorical (or, as they prefer to put it, both dispositional and qualitative). From Wordnik.com. [Dispositions] Reference
There are some clear cases: fragility, solubility, irrascibility are dispositions, while massiveness and triangularity seem to be non-dispositional, or categorical. From Wordnik.com. [Dispositions] Reference
However, advocates of CTM often speak of it more generally as an account of beliefs and desires which are then cashed out in dispositional rather than occurrent terms. From Wordnik.com. [The Computational Theory of Mind] Reference
One perspective (Dennett, 1987) is that propositional attitudes are actually dispositional states that we use to adopt a certain heuristic stance toward rational agents. From Wordnik.com. [Eliminative Materialism] Reference
But this is not to say, on Mackie's view, that the dispositional property being ascribed is essentially a power to produce a certain manifestation in certain conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Dispositions] Reference
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