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Dispositions and Occurrences

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I have already had occasion to argue that a number of the words which we commonly use to describe and explain people’s behaviour signify dispositions and not episodes. To say that a person knows something, or aspires to be something, is not to say that he is at a particular moment in process of doing or undergoing anything, but that he is able to do certain things, when the need arises, or that he is prone to do and feel certain things in situations of certain sorts.

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Ryle, G. (1978). Dispositions and Occurrences. In: Tuomela, R. (eds) Dispositions. Synthese Library, vol 113. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1282-8_19

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