Assertion: ability | /r/CapableOf | perform some action
Facets:
value: for a human being
type: OTHER
value: in the manner
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Having an ability to perform some action stands in some relationship to actually performing that action.
text: Some will expect that an account of ability would also be an account of what it is to know how to perform an action, on the supposition that one knows how to perform a certain action just in case one has the ability to perform that action.
text: According to the World Health Organisation, a disability is… "any restriction or lack (resulting from any impairment) of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being" A disability includes those that: are present, or
text: Most abilities to do with action are a combination and are referred to as psychomotor abilities.
text: Compatibilism’ is used in many ways, but let us understand it here as the thesis that the ability to perform actions one does not perform is compossible with the truth of determinism, which we may take to be the view that the facts about the past and the laws jointly determine the facts about the present and all future moments.
text: We can construct cases in which subjects seem to have the ability to perform some act even though they don't know how to do it.
text: Informally, (1) expresses the principle that if an agent performs an action, then she has the ability to perform this action.
text: But if (CA) is true, then agents would have the ability to perform various actions that they do not actually perform.
text: Informally, (2) expresses the principle that if an agent has the ability to perform one of two actions, then she has the ability to perform either the first action or the second action.
text: If (CA) were true, it would constitute a theory of ability in that it would say under exactly what conditions some agent has the ability to perform some action without making reference to the idea of ability itself.
text: Given the further claim that the agent is nonetheless morally responsible for doing A, this case appears to be a counterexample to the intuitive principle that an agent is morally responsible for Aing only if she had the ability to perform some action other than A
text: We do not want, first of all, for a theory of ability to take actually performing an action to be a necessary condition for having the ability to perform that action.
text: A more delicate question is whether actually performing an action is a sufficient condition for having the ability to perform that action.
text: An impairment is any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological or anatomical structure or function; a disability is any restriction or lack (resulting from an impairment) of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being; a handicap is a disadvantage for a given individual, resulting from an impairment or a disability, that prevents the fulfilment of a role that is considered normal (depending on age, sex and social and cultural factors) for that individual'.