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Lawful mimickers

Lawful mimickers
Lawful mimickers
The nomic view of dispositions holds that properties confer dispositions on their bearers with nomological necessity. The argument against nomic dispositions challenges the nomic view: if the nomic view is true, then objects don’t have dispositions, but ‘mimic’ them. This paper presents an explication of disposition conferral which shows that the nomic view is not vulnerable to this objection.
laws of nature, dispositions, causal powers
0003-2638
488-494
Baysan, Umut
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Baysan, Umut
69cc8c93-08a0-4b88-8192-eb5a22fa82e3

Baysan, Umut (2017) Lawful mimickers. Analysis, 77 (3), 488-494. (doi:10.1093/analys/anx086).

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The nomic view of dispositions holds that properties confer dispositions on their bearers with nomological necessity. The argument against nomic dispositions challenges the nomic view: if the nomic view is true, then objects don’t have dispositions, but ‘mimic’ them. This paper presents an explication of disposition conferral which shows that the nomic view is not vulnerable to this objection.

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Published date: 3 July 2017
Keywords: laws of nature, dispositions, causal powers
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Local EPrints ID: 505232
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/505232
DOI: doi:10.1093/analys/anx086
ISSN: 0003-2638
PURE UUID: 4f734dc1-f1a9-4be4-a850-81b4e3f86f3c
ORCID for Umut Baysan: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1975-0739

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Date deposited: 02 Oct 2025 16:44
Last modified: 03 Oct 2025 02:18

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