Disposition ascriptions

Simona Aimar

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

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I argue that disposition ascriptions—claims like ‘the glass is fragile’—are semantically equivalent to possibility claims: they are true when the given object manifests the disposition in at least one of the relevant possible worlds.

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1955Fact, Fiction, and Forecast.2007Vagueness and grammar: the semantics of relative and absolute gradable adjectives 2005Scale Structure, Degree Modification, and the Semantics of Gradable Predicates 1977What ‘must’ and ‘can’ must and can mean 1980A semantics for positive and comparative adjectives 1994Dispositions and Conditionals 2012Modals and ConditionalsNew and Revised Perspectives 1997Finkish Dispositions

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