ABSTRACT

Humean minded philosophers have argued: if dispositions, like, for example, fragility and solubility, were real properties they would bring an antiHumean element to the world. The disposition would somehow point towards its manifestation and thereby generate a connection in nature, a necessity between wholly distinct entities, the existence of which Hume, allegedly, proved to be nonexistent. Consequently one should, as a Humean, deny the existence of dispositional properties.