id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6697 Disposition - Wikipedia .html text/html 1306 154 52 The debate about dispositions in metaphysics attempts to understand the fundamental nature of properties, including how they relate to laws of nature.[1] The initial question asks if dispositions are real. Dispositionalism maintains that even paradigmatic examples of what appears to be qualitative such as squareness has causal powers (for instance when combined with the property of hardness to make a square impression in soft wax).[2] This view is historically argued for by Aristotle and Leibniz. According to this view, dispositional and categorical or as Martin prefers: "qualitative," because categorical seems to be misleading predicates are different ways of identifying one and the same property.[6] Additionally, the properties lies on a spectrum in which it could approach either limit; however, it can never reach either end because those concepts are unrealisable. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6697.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6697.txt