Sentence examples for conception of modality from inspiring English sources

It appears that Peacocke's account acknowledges an actualist conception of modality rather than a possibilist conception.

Conceptions of modality along these lines were sometimes described as per accidens conceptions, since in many cases a proposition's modal status could change with the passage of time; its modal status, as it were, happens to or is incidental to it (accidit).

Azzouni (2006), ch. 9, also defends the view that model-theoretic validity provides a correct conceptual analysis of logical truth (though restricted to first-order languages), on the basis of a certain deflationist conception of the (strong) modality involved in logical truth.

Grosseteste does not reject this conception of per accidens modalities.

Which properties these are varies depending on our pretheoretic conception of, for example, the features of modality and formality.

This conception of a possible object forces Lewis to resort to his counterpart theoretic account of modality de re (Lewis 1968).

It appears that at several places the conception potentially opens itself up to a charge of circularity in virtue of using one kind of modality to explain another kind of modality.

None of these conceptions, which were well known to early medieval thinkers through the works of Boethius, was based on the idea of modality as involving reference to simultaneous alternatives.

It is presumably to mitigate this difficulty that Burke adopts a conception of the imagination that encompasses all five sense modalities.

It is, after all, the existence of such correlations between different sense modalities which grounds an objective conception of the world (phenomena accessible only by one sense are more likely to be thought of as subjective in origin).

Typically, they replace the conception of propositional encoding with one according to which symbols convey a modality-specific feature.