disposition |
Working Definition:
A disposition is an inclination to assume a particular position in thought, discourse, or action.
Disciplinary Definitions:
"believing s a ... disposition to respond in certain ways when the approriate issue arise." 3-4 (Quine and Ullian Web of Belief)
Comments:
Notes
A person with a dispositional perspective tends to attribute the outcomes of events largely to the disposition of the agents involved. A person with a situational perspective tends to attribute the outcomes of events largely to the constraints built into the situation. Aronson, [??] This is a very helpful distinction. It would seem that configuring entails a situational perspective. However, one that primes the observer’s disposition to respond. This may also be a difference between a worldview and configuring. Beliefs are dispositions. Configuring is the recognition of a particular situational pattern. Yet it does encompass beliefs about the actors involved. Maybe configuring is a way of recognizing situations as the disposition of an inter-actor to behave in particular ways. E.g., the attribution of a femme-fatal pattern on a situation is a belief that the woman involved is disposed to harm the man involved.
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