Sentence examples for notion of modality from inspiring English sources

without resorting to a primitive notion of modality.

This definition corresponds to Fine's notion of modality de re in the strict sense (1978, 143).

A similar critique of the rather arbitrary restriction to a limited set of words is applied to the scholastic notion of modality (Valla Repastinatio, 237 244; 491–497).

That is, the abstractionist can argue that we begin with a primitive notion of modality and, typically upon a certain amount of philosophical reflection, we subsequently discover an intimate connection to the notion of a possible world, as revealed in the principles Nec and Poss.

If folk psychology uses the notion of causality, it is no matter if it is what Quine has called second grade discourse, involving the very contextual notions of modality.

From 1917, Łukasiewicz had been happy with the three-valued logic as formulating adequate notions of modality, with the noted preference for the infinite-valued system as optimally precise.

Intuitive Conceptual is a plausible option for philosophers who take there to be a stronger alternative to weak ethical supervenience, but are not prepared to commit themselves to the notion of metaphysical modality.

These subtypes of epistemic modality correspond to the degrees of probability in the SFG notion of modalization.

Our findings provide evidence to support the notion of a modality-specific account.

These observations do not contradict the notion of a modality-related SMC, but suggest that the complementary class of object-related SMCs being defined as "the capture of multisensory patterns caused by actions directed towards objects" (Maye & Engel, 2012) is important as well.

To the extent that these notions are free of modality, Lewis has arguably reduced modal notions to non-modal.