Like Ockham, he has only substances and qualities in his basic ontology, but he is much more willing than Ockham to expand this in the direction of modes or ways of being when confronted with recalcitrant phenomena.
As Sten Ebbesen describes it: "The basic idea of modism is this: each constituent of reality (each res) has a number of ways or modes of being (modi essendi) which determine the number of ways in which it can be correctly conceptualized; the ways in which it can be conceptualized (modi intelligendi) in turn determine in which way it can be signified" (Ebbesen 1998, 274).
We went in search of places to excite us, buildings to show us new ways of seeing and modes of living.
We read fiction to catch glimpses of other ways of seeing, alternative modes of being; and for lovers of great fiction the Caine Prize anthology rewards its readers again and again in joyful and often surprising ways.
We observed collaborative inquiry practices as four modes of evoking ways of knowing and two modes of building coherence.
Lowe expresses what may be much the same underlying thought by suggesting that Locke may perhaps be interpreted as holding an "adverbial" theory of ideas, whereby they are construed as ways (or modes) of experiencing rather than as mental entities (Lowe, 1995 pp. 42– 47, 2005 pp. 47 48).
The qualitative analysis revealed that the following organizational and environmental factors influence GP practice in various ways: mode of remuneration, peer-to-peer interactions, patients' demands and the availability of other medical resources in the environment.
Bikes, as complex mechanisms, have a variety of modes: fundamental ways that they can move.
On Tony Blair, The Independent, 1995 "We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress.
"We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress," he declared in a campaign speech.
