ABSTRACT

Many predicates are dispositional. Some show this by a suffix like ‘-ible’, -uble’, or ‘-able’: sugar is soluble in water, gasoline is flammable. Others have no such suffix and don't wear their dispositionality on their sleeves. Yet part of what it is to be solid is to be disposed to resist deformation, and part of what it is to be red is to appear red to normal human observers in normal lighting conditions.