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- adverb In a
dispositional manner - adverb With reference to
disposition
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Examples
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The fact that I'm disposed to be in these states doesn't mean that I'm in these states in some obscure mode you call "dispositionally".
Ultrasound and the Future of Confused Wannabe Paternalists 2007
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So Kantian innateness is essentially a procedure-based innateness, consisting in an a priori active readiness of the mind for implementing rules of synthesis, as opposed to the content-based innateness of Cartesian and Leibnizian innate ideas, according to which an infinitely large supply of complete (e.g., mathematical) beliefs, propositions, or concepts themselves are either occurrently or dispositionally intrinsic to the mind.
Kant's Theory of Judgment Hanna, Robert 2009
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Marchia grants, but it is in his power ˜dispositionally™, for although the agent cannot act before he acts, he can be disposed to act so that he will in fact act.
Francis of Marchia Schabel, Christopher 2008
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That doesn't mean that it is in the state of fracture, dispositionally.
Ultrasound and the Future of Confused Wannabe Paternalists 2007
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I have no idea what it means to say "I'm in these states dispositionally."
Ultrasound and the Future of Confused Wannabe Paternalists 2007
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You probably don't occurrently love your mother or desire not to get cancer right now -- you're in these states dispositionally, and that's why one could attribute them to you at this moment.
Ultrasound and the Future of Confused Wannabe Paternalists 2007
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You probably don't occurrently love your mother or desire not to get cancer right now -- you're in these states dispositionally, and that's why one could attribute them to you at this moment.
Ultrasound and the Future of Confused Wannabe Paternalists 2007
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As Mill explained in his Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, the genetic antecedents are not integrant or real parts, as his father supposed, but only (as he put it) metaphysical parts; as metaphysical parts, they are present but only dispositionally.
John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007
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This stuff about having mental states dispositionally is pretty standard in the philosophy of mind.
Ultrasound and the Future of Confused Wannabe Paternalists 2007
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This stuff about having mental states dispositionally is pretty standard in the philosophy of mind.
Ultrasound and the Future of Confused Wannabe Paternalists 2007
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