A GRADABLE APPROACH TO DISPOSITIONS

Ryan Wasserman

107 citations0/0 files storedThe Philosophical Quarterly

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Philosophy and Theoretical Science Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

Abstract

Previous theories of the relationship between dispositions and conditionals are unable to account for the fact that dispositions come in degrees. We propose a fix for this problem which has the added benefit of avoiding the familiar problems of finks and masks.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 107 citations exist upstream.

References

1979Scorekeeping in a language game 2005Scale Structure, Degree Modification, and the Semantics of Gradable Predicates 1984COMPARING SEMANTIC THEORIES OF COMPARISON 1976THE SEMANTICS OF DEGREE 1980A semantics for positive and comparative adjectives 1992How to speak of the colors 1994Dispositions and Conditionals 1944Grading, A Study in Semantics

Cited by

2018Disposition ascriptions 2011Dispositions, Conditionals, and Counterexamples 2019Natural kinds and dispositions: a causal analysis

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.