Open AccessMinkish dispositions
Author(s) -
Alan Hájek
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
synthese
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1573-0964
pISSN - 0039-7857
DOI - 10.1007/s11229-015-1011-y
Subject(s) - ascription , counterfactual thinking , disposition , philosophy of language , epistemology , counterexample , metaphysics , philosophy of science , philosophy of mind , philosophy , psychology , mathematics , discrete mathematics
Start with an ordinary disposition ascription, like ‘the wire is live’ or ‘the glass is fragile’. Lewis (Philos Quart 47:143–158, 1997) gives a canonical template for what he regards as the analysandum of such an ascription:
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