Abstract
In order to develop the ontology of tendencies for use in the
representation of medical knowledge, tendencies are compared with
other kinds of entities possessing the realizable-realization-structure,
specifically: dispositions, propensities, abilities and virtues. The
peculiarities of tendencies are discussed and a standard schema of
tendency ascription is developed in order to represent the relations
between the ascriptions of tendency tokens to particulars and the
ascriptions of tendency types to universals. Two non-standard cases and
their epistemic variants are discussed.