ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the attempt to reduce the kind of conditional possibility to a conditional proposition, because the events involved in the manifestation of a disposition and because many people think, in a no less Humean way, that the possibility of this manifestation must and can be reduced to conditional connecting two events. It agrees with S. Mumford that the attribution of a disposition conceptually implies the conditional even though, for reasons excellently put forward by him, the conditional doesn't supply any analysis of the ascription of a power. Alvin Goldman claims that if the argument were valid, the classical analysis of dispositions in terms of conditionals would have to be discarded, which is absurd. D. Lewis defends the conditional analysis in adding to the set of conditions referred to in a counterfactual that the object put to the test retains its causal base.
