disposition


  • noun attribute

    - your usual mood

    Example: he has a happy disposition


  • noun act

    - the act or means of getting rid of something


  • noun cognition

    - an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others


  • noun attribute

    - a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing

    Example: a swelling with a disposition to rupture

Sentence examples for disposition from high-quality English sources.

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  • Might we instead say that knowing how to do something entails a disposition to do it?

  • It masks the disposition of the glass to break when struck, but does not remove that disposition.

  • By the Distinctness Thesis the disposition is one of these other properties, ergo the disposition does nothing.

  • The system can be selected for the one disposition that it has but it cannot be selected for the disposition that it does not have.

  • Mumford (1998) defends a ‘token-identity theory’ according to which any instance of a disposition is identical with an instance of its causal basis.

  • Hence there are three dispositions (at least) here: a disposition to react in the attack mode, a disposition to react in the decay mode, a disposition to vibrate in a certain way.

  • It is indeed a disposition, but a disposition of one’s will, not a disposition of emotions, feelings, desires or any other feature of human nature that might be amenable to habituation.

  • For instance, if you seem to see a red shiny fish in front of you, then (on this view) you have a disposition to believe that there is a fish in front of you, and your experience is identical with this disposition.

disposition sentence examples

  • Geoff also has a disposition to perform evil actions, but this disposition is not highly fixed because he is indifferent about whether he should be disposed to perform evil actions and is, in general, capricious and unprincipled.

  • Note that PPJ and Lewis’s characterisation both leave it an open question whether the causal bases for a disposition need be categorical properties, or instead a disposition might have a disposition as a causal basis.

  • Shoemaker (1980) considers a key’s disposition to open his front door and points out that it could lose this disposition without undergoing any intrinsic change, for example, by the lock on his door being replaced by one of a different kind.

  • Rick Grush (2000, 2007) has adopted Evans’ theory, and attempted to clarify and expand upon it, particularly in three areas: first, the distinction between the disposition theory and other approaches; second, the neural implementation of the disposition theory; and finally the specific kinds of dispositions that are relevant for the issue of spatial experience.

disposition


  • noun attribute

    - your usual mood

    Example: he has a happy disposition


  • noun act

    - the act or means of getting rid of something


  • noun cognition

    - an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others


  • noun attribute

    - a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing

    Example: a swelling with a disposition to rupture

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  • 17 sentence examples for disposition from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • 1 sentence examples for disposition from Encyclopedia Britannica
  • 1 sentence examples for disposition from Business Insider
  • 1 sentence examples for disposition from GutenbergBooks - Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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  • • Relevant word or phrase for disposition is temperament
  • • Relevant word or phrase for disposition is disposal
  • • Relevant word or phrase for disposition is inclination
  • • Relevant word or phrase for disposition is tendency

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