Instead...

Instead, he offers what can be called a non-factualist account of disposition-ascriptions. On the account, to ascribe a skill, tendency, liability, proclivity (or any other of a variety of specific types of dispositions) is not to report the obtaining of any set of facts, but rather to operate among fact-statements.[^175] Ryle likens the role of disposition-ascriptions to the role of statements of physical law; both kinds of statements do not, he suggests, state facts but rather license certain patterns of inference among statements of them: At least part of the point of trying to establish laws is to find out how to infer from…