Sentence examples for modal property a from inspiring English sources

Analogously, for Yagisawa an object has a modal property, a property at world w, by having a modal stage at world w which has that property.

Roughly: if the empirical facts don't directly rule out there being an object with a given modal property in a given location, then there is an object in that location with that modal property (cf. Eklund 2008: §4).

Necessity, in logic and metaphysics, a modal property of a true proposition whereby it is not possible for the proposition to be false and of a false proposition whereby it is not possible for the proposition to be true.

If modal discourse is interpreted in this way it becomes natural to regard a statement ascribing a modal property to an individual as asserting the identity of that individual across worlds: "John might have been a millionaire", on this view, asserts that there is a possible world in which an individual identical with John is a millionaire.

Similarly, we can define a non-alethic modal property from an alethic one by restricting the quantifier over possible worlds to some class that does not include the actual world.

A modal property defined by restriction from an alethic kind of necessity must itself be alethic.

The modal properties of a system comprising of a fluid-containing appendage attached to a multi-degree-of-freedom system are expressed in terms of the individual dynamic properties of the primary and secondary systems.

As noted above, Adams takes any modal statement containing a name as, in effect, an atomic statement that predicates a modal property of the referent of the name.

Yet this is irrelevant in the present context, for (31a) does not amount to an ascription of a modal property and cannot be used in connection with Leibniz's law.

And Malloy himself has the modal property could have been a contender in virtue of having a counterpart in w who is a contender.

A modal property N is called alethic just in case the claim that a proposition has N entails that the proposition is true.