[lit-ideas] Donal's Indisposed
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:06:42 EST
In a message dated 11/17/2004 10:00:18 AM Eastern Standard Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
This is surely wrong because a disposition to do x may be non-actualised, so
that despite the disposition to do x existing, x is not done. To say someone
has a disposition to do x is therefore not the same as saying someone has
done x.
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Right. As when they say, "She is a practising heterosexual". Why not just
plain "heterosexual"?
("I didn't know you had to practise for it")
Cheers,
JL
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