Analysis of the concept of habit has been relatively neglected in the contemporary analytic literature. This paper is an attempt to rectify this lack. The strategy begins with a description of some paradigm cases of habit which are used to derive five features as the basis for an explicative definition. It is argued that habits are social, acquired through repetition, enduring, environmentally activated, and automatic. The enduring nature of habits is captured by their being dispositions of a certain sort. This is a realist account of habits insofar as the dispositions put forward must fit into some recognizable underlying system – in the case of humans a biological system – to fill the role as set out by the definition. This role is wide-ranging; in addition to the familiar cases of habitual behavior, habitual activities also include thinking, perceiving, feeling, and willing.

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习惯的意义

对习惯概念的分析在当代分析文献中相对被忽视。本文试图弥补这一不足。该策略首先描述了一些习惯范式案例，这些案例用于导出五个特征作为解释性定义的基础。有人认为，习惯是社会性的，是通过重复获得的、持久的、环境激活的和自动的。习惯的持久本质是通过它们的某种性格倾向来捕捉的。这是对习惯的现实主义描述，因为所提出的倾向必须适合一些可识别的潜在系统——在人类的情况下是一个生物系统——以填补定义中规定的角色。这个角色是广泛的；除了熟悉的习惯行为案例外，习惯性活动还包括思考、