dispositionalism

noun

A tendency to prefer dispositional attribution rather than situational attribution.

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Meanings

noundispositionalism (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesA tendency to prefer dispositional attribution rather than situational attribution.

    My own use of this fundamental principle will be relatively modest: I am not attempting to argue for physicalism over dispositionalism or other alternatives, but only to show that if one is to be a color physicalist, one should tie colors to events.

    2007 December 14, Robert Pasnau, “The event of color”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI

Origin

From dispositional + -ism.

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