Definition of "propensities" [propensities]

• Plural form of propensity. (noun)

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• "But really, cousin, don't you think that this way of contradicting our natures and propensities, is very wrong?"
• "According to the long-run theories, propensities are tendencies to produce relative frequencies with particular values, but the propensities are not the probability values themselves; according to the single-case theories, the propensities are the probability values."
• "Hence virtue consists in a rationally-calculated. weighing out of the measure of the reciprocally limiting propensities, that is, in preserving a proper equilibrium."