Opposing powers |
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Authors: | Randolph Clarke |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, Florida State University, 151 Dodd Hall, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA |
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Abstract: | A disposition mask is something that prevents a disposition from manifesting despite the occurrence of that disposition’s
characteristic stimulus, and without eliminating that disposition. Several authors have maintained that masks must be things
extrinsic to the objects that have the masked dispositions. Here it is argued that this is not so; masks can be intrinsic
to the objects whose dispositions they mask. If that is correct, then a recent attempt to distinguish dispositional properties
from so-called categorical properties fails. |
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