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Dispositions and powers / Toby Friend and Samuel Kimpton- Nye

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Elements in metaphysicsPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023Description: 1 Online-Ressource (unpaged) : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9781009118910
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781009113014. | Erscheint auch als: Dispositions and powers. Druck-Ausgabe Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2023DDC classification:
  • 303.3 23/eng/20230420
LOC classification:
  • B105.D56
Online resources: Summary: "As we understand them, dispositions are relatively uncontroversial 'predicatory' properties had by objects disposed in certain ways. By contrast, powers are hypothetical 'ontic' properties posited in order to explain dispositional behaviour. Section 1 outlines this distinction in more detail. Section 2 offers a summary of the issues surrounding analysis of dispositions and various strategies in contemporary literature to address them, including one of our own. Section 3 describes some of the important questions facing the metaphysics of powers, including why they are worth positing and how they might metaphysically explain laws of nature and modality"--PPN: PPN: 191623805XPackage identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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