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  • Entailment might then be redefined as follows: for all propositions P and Q,

    Propositions McGrath, Matthew 2007

  • Entailment corresponds to the subset relation on ranges.

    Truthlikeness Oddie, Graham 2007

  • Given Entailment, dispositions are essentially purely "hypothetical" or "conditional" properties, making implicit but ineliminable reference to entirely counterfactual states of affairs.

    Dispositions Fara, Michael 2006

  • Entailment, if correct, as an unremarkable and straightforward categorization of a class of properties, the dispositions; and they would regard Mellor's argument, if successful, as a demonstration either of the fact that every property is a disposition, or of the fact that Entailment is false.

    Dispositions Fara, Michael 2006

  • Entailment overlooks the fact that even if Mellor is correct to claim that the ascription of any property entails a subjunctive conditional, only ascriptions of dispositions entail conditionals as a matter of conceptual necessity.

    Dispositions Fara, Michael 2006

  • The debate over whether Mellor's criticism of Entailment is successful continues today.

    Dispositions Fara, Michael 2006

  • Entailment might be disputed on the ground that ascriptions of dispositions are not unique in this regard.

    Dispositions Fara, Michael 2006

  • If ascriptions of dispositions do not entail corresponding subjunctive conditionals, then Entailment is of course hopeless as a characterization of dispositions.

    Dispositions Fara, Michael 2006

  • In an influential paper, D.H. Mellor (1974) argued that Entailment does imply this.

    Dispositions Fara, Michael 2006

  • Entailment can secure the dispositional/categorical distinction in a way that does not count all properties as dispositions (see below).

    Dispositions Fara, Michael 2006

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