Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Properties, Powers and Structures |
| Subtitle of host publication | Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism |
| Editors | Brian Ellis, Howard Sankey, Alexander Bird |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Routledge Publisher (Taylor and Francis Group) |
| Chapter | 11 |
| Pages | 181-199 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780415895354 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Publication series
| Name | Routledge Studies in Metaphysics |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Number | 5 |
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The Categorical-Dispositional Distinction. / Ford, Sharon.
Properties, Powers and Structures : Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism. ed. / Brian Ellis; Howard Sankey; Alexander Bird. 1st . ed. New York : Routledge Publisher (Taylor and Francis Group), 2012. p. 181-199 (Routledge Studies in Metaphysics; No. 5).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
TY - CHAP
T1 - The Categorical-Dispositional Distinction
AU - Ford, Sharon
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - causal powers
KW - Categoricalism
KW - dispositions
KW - D M Armstrong
KW - scientific realism
KW - dispositional essentialism
KW - laws of nature
KW - kinds
UR - https://www.crcpress.com/Properties-Powers-and-Structures-Issues-in-the-Metaphysics-of-Realism/Bird-Ellis-Sankey/p/book/9781138245280
UR - https://www.academia.edu/1755149/2012_The_Categorical-Dispositional_Distinction_-_author_Pre-Print
U2 - 10.4324/9780203124482
DO - 10.4324/9780203124482
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780415895354
T3 - Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
SP - 181
EP - 199
BT - Properties, Powers and Structures
A2 - Ellis, Brian
A2 - Sankey, Howard
A2 - Bird, Alexander
PB - Routledge Publisher (Taylor and Francis Group)
CY - New York
ER -