"modality" is an accepted and widely used term in written English.
It is often used when discussing language, grammar, linguistics, and communication. For example: "The modality of the sentence shifted from declarative to interrogative when the speaker changed their tone."
If we are realistic about possible worlds semantics, the model theory for modal talk itself does not contain primitive modality, instead containing worlds as points of evaluation and the notion of truth at a world, in which case 'there is' in the above truth recursion does not occur inside the scope of a possibility operator.
This suggests that bodily awareness of some sort may be involved in contentful experiences, even when those experiences are otherwise visual or auditory, so that experiential attitudes may have to be cross-modal, rather than being individuated simply by sensory modality.
One extension is to add a binary modality ⊳, where for a given arithmetical theory T, the modal sentence A ⊳ B is meant to stand for "T+B is interpretable in T+A".
All non-skeptical approaches to modality agree that Kripke models provide key insights into the meaning of our modal discourse and the nature of modal reality.
It is a different modality, an intensifier to all of that.When writing a novel set over nearly a century, how do you deal with changing value systems?One of the problems for authors of the contemporary era who want to go back before the first world war is writing about fucking and saying the word "fuck".
It is a curious but telling aspect of Havel's well-known saying, from its inspirations in Jan Hus ('Truth prevails'), that it was seldom clear whether the proper verb modality here was the indicative or imperative: 'prevails' or 'must prevail.' While the moral tenor seems rather obvious, it is formally ambiguous whether Havel is making a descriptive or normative claim.
Vision is a robustly spatial perceptual modality.
What about the modality of ethical supervenience?
Consider the debate about modality.
Other philosophers have been influenced by analogies between time and modality.
So, according to Lewis' counterpart-theoretic treatment of de re modality, it is true that Obama could have been a doctor if and only if there is some possible individual that appropriately resembles Obama and is a doctor.
