Hic rhodos, hic salta: From reductionist semantics to a realist ontology of forceful dispositions

Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 145-167

  Schrenk, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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