 As Boyle explains it, the dispositive sense is conveyed by this: If there were no perceivers, snow, which is actually cold, would in virtue of its corpuscular constitution, be such that if it were applied to the tactual sensory organs of an animal, it would produce “such a quality (sic)”, whereas a body, which does not actually have a SQ, would not produce such a quality. This is to be “dispositively” cold, or “fit” to be cold, but actually to be endowed only with certain MAs (OFQ [1991: 31]). Why would the lack of competent perceivers prevent snow’s being cold given that snow need not be perceived in order to be cold?