So, for instance, talk of possibility and necessity can be thought of not as talk about some objective modality in nature, but as talk of what phenomena fit in the models of the accepted theory (van Fraassen 1980, 201 202).
In the auditory modality, the nature of SSR generation has been a recurrent debate.
In the Discussion, we will present possible insights this may provide into the abundance of sensory modalities in nature.
Whereas visual shapes can be rotated freely in any direction, the simulation of OA movements allows us to isolate the modality-specific nature of motor imagery [20] [22].
By "inflationary metaphysics," van Fraassen has in mind the scientific realists' typical beliefs in, for example, laws of nature, natural kinds, and objective modality.
Fine's modal theory is based on the broadly Aristotelian idea that alethic modality stems from natures of things.
Although the question of whether Spinoza was a necessitarian is the predominant topic of discussion in the recent secondary literature on Spinoza's modal views, Spinoza also sketches interesting accounts of the nature of modality (3) and the ground of modality (4) that shed fresh light on his modal commitments.
In addition to providing a clear, extensional formal semantics for a formerly somewhat opaque, intensional notion, cashing possibility as truth in some possible world and necessity as truth in every such world seems to tap into very deep intuitions about the nature of modality and the meaning of our modal discourse.
Hand in glove with the irreducible nature of modality is the nature of intensional entities.
Far less attention has been given to Spinoza's account of the nature of modality.
