@inbook{8f03c017c8664f42b7c09a83dde4e798,
title = "The Categorical-Dispositional Distinction",
abstract = "We have an overwhelming sense of the world as containing spatially-oriented distinct objects, and it seems that we derive this sensation from the properties of things as revealed by their effects upon us. This paper asks what sorts of properties should be posited to exist in accounting for this ostensibly qualitative, yet powerful, world. ",
keywords = "causal powers, Categoricalism, dispositions, D M Armstrong, scientific realism, dispositional essentialism, laws of nature, kinds",
author = "Sharon Ford",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.4324/9780203124482",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780415895354",
series = "Routledge Studies in Metaphysics",
publisher = "Routledge Publisher (Taylor and Francis Group)",
number = "5",
pages = "181--199",
editor = "Brian Ellis and Howard Sankey and Alexander Bird",
booktitle = "Properties, Powers and Structures",
edition = "1st ",
}