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One idea worth exploring is that of grounding these unactualized possibilities in thedispositions of actual items in the world. Various examples Necessitarians have cited inadvancing their theory (see, e.g., Pap 1962, pp. 273–306, and Madden 1969) have suggested thatthere is an intimate connection between nomicity, warrant for counterfactuals, and dispositions1of things in the world. For example, a standard warrant for the counterfactual conditional “Thisundissolved lump of salt would dissolve if placed in water” is that this tacit physical possibilityarises from salt’s disposition to dissolve when placed in water. Suppose we were to extend thestate-description model (see Chapter 7) by allowing the singular statements that comprise a statedescriptionto include reference to dispositional properties (e.g., is soluble) as well as to manifestones (e.g., has dissolved).2 Could the unactualized physical possibilities of the Necessitarian begrounded in such an augmented factual base?
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