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Dispositional Statements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Arthur W. Burks
Arthur W. Burks*
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University of Michigan
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Because statements like ‘This object is soluble in aqua regia’ involve the causal modalities, we call them causal dispositional statements. Now while this involvement has long been recognized, no thorough examination of its exact nature has ever been made. One purpose of this paper is to begin such an examination. In Sec. 2 we will suggest an analysis of causal dispositional statements, and in Sec. 3 we will discuss some philosophic issues to which this analysis is relevant.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , July 1955, pp. 175 - 193
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1955

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Footnotes

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This paper was written while the author was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow.

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