0 the particular type of character that a person naturally has: --
1 a person’s usual way of feeling or behaving; the tendency of a person to be happy, friendly, anxious, etc.: --
a cheerful disposition
2 the process of selling something or formally giving it to someone: --
3 the way in which a formal process, such as a business deal or a matter dealt with in a court of law, is completed: --
In such cases, as in many others, what will sustain me are my habits of mind, my intuitions, my prejudices, my dispositions.
Men and women with heroic dispositions will risk their lives and welfare for others, without knowing the outcome; otherwise they would not need courage.
First, they occur when the agent's initial dispositions are explicitly inconsistent, so the agent accepts both a proposition and its negation.
We have suggested that, for our eighteenth-century writers, the concept of rationality was less narrowly defined, and could encompass dispositions as well as actions.
Adult participants resisted its effects in favour of recapturing childhood ways of being, especially manifest through dispositions for engagement.
Colonists and garrisons were largely absent, and with them land-confiscations, new influxes of wealth, and the sudden arrival of new cultural habits and dispositions.
Matters are somewhat different when we come to dispositions where the modus is in the public interest.
Testators sometimes confirmed their civil-law dispositions in the form of a trust.
