Sentence examples for modal status by from inspiring English sources

(K) is in the material mode and we ask about its modal status, by talking about certain stuff and asking whether it is or would be gold if it had such-and-such properties, and so forth.

Nomic necessity is a special modal status enjoyed by all and only the propositions that are metaphysically necessitated by the natural laws.

There are many others examples in epistemology and ethics like Sheep in that they evoke some intuition that P, not an intuition that necessarily, P. Further, Albert Casullo has argued that if intellectual intuitions are distinguished by their modal status, there is no guarantee that those intuitions do not come from an experiential source (2012b: 2012b38).

Now, if P is metaphysically necessitated by the laws without itself being a law, then it may seem plausible to say, in some sense, that P has that special modal status because P is metaphysically necessitated by the laws.

But the reason why being metaphysically necessitated by the laws confers that special modal status on P is presumably that the laws themselves have that modal status and that this modal status gets transmitted across metaphysical necessitation.

The great gap between finite and infinite modes suggested by the cursory reading of Ip28 leaves the modal status of tables and persons merely hypothetically necessary.

One might be tempted to think that the entire problem of the modal status of modal danglers (i.e. those statements that concern the truth or modal status of the theory itself) is one that can be ignored, or at least easily avoided, by the fictionalist.

Therefore, the modal transfer principle does not apply, and so their modal status will not be absolutely necessary.

Hence, (7) cannot be a correct general account of what constitutes that special modal status.

A further notable debate about the metaphysics of haecceities concerns their modal status.

The ways in which objects are conceived partly determines a thing's modal status.