Sentence examples for modal status of from inspiring English sources

The distinction between infinite and finite modes is relevant for Spinoza's views on modality because of what he says about the modal status of infinite modes.

Much turns on what one says about the modal status of this truth.

A promising place to start is the modal status of God's existence.

We have now seen two competing accounts of Spinoza's views about the modal status of finite objects.

On the other hand Descartes famously held that the modal status of propositions depends on God's will.

A question arises about the modal status of the fiction: is it necessarily false, or contingently false?

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.

How a thing is conceived partly fixes its modal status, on this interpretation.

Spinoza clearly means his 'demotion' of bodies to modal status to be a denial that they are substances in this sense.

Hence Rand rejects the analytic-synthetic distinction; that is, she denies any significant difference in metaphysical or modal status, as well as in means of being known, between those characteristics of a class that are and those that are not mentioned in the definition.

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).