He sets out four tables, each containing four modal determinations interchangeable with each other.
In the Analytica Priora, we find ourselves involved, from and after the second chapter, in the distinction of Modal propositions, the necessary and the possible.
Aristotle now discusses the so-called Modal Propositions--the Possible and the Necessary.
But though I dissent from Hamilton's criticisms on this point, I do not concur with the opposing critics who think that Aristotle has handled the Modal Propositions in a satisfactory manner.
In every complete theory of enunciative speech, these modal propositions deserve to be separately explained, both in their substantive meaning and in their relation to other propositions.
They are called +modal auxiliaries+ and are followed by the infinitive without to.
It is therefore neither surprising nor a sign of archaism that the tonality of modal music is from the modern point of view often very indefinite.
But there was a great difference between modal and modern conceptions of modulation.
It cannot be too strongly insisted that the expression of modal music is a permanent artistic fact.
On the contrary, the distinction between masterpieces and inferior works in the 16th century is nowhere more evident than in the expressive power of modal tonality, alike where it resembles and where it differs from modern.
He prefers "instrumental Trinity" to "modal Trinity" as a designation of his doctrine.
This is only a grosser form of Sabellianism, or of a modal Trinity.
Because, in the third place, he broke down the opposition which the most scientific had felt to the seductivemodal formula of evolution by bringing forward a more plausible theory of the process than had been previously suggested.
It must also be admitted that some of these pioneers of evolutionism did more than apply the evolution-idea as a modal formula of becoming, they began to inquire into the factors in the process.
I note below such instances of modal tunes as occur in this collection.
There are slight modal influences in other tunes, viz.
Were it capable of complete statement without determination of its modal character, it could never form part of a unified experience.
The definitions of the modal categories have therefore to be called by that inappropriate name.
Even so, the problem of the causa sui cannot be eliminated, and reappears, partly as the problem of freedom, and partly as the modal problem of necessary existence.
The modal (or adverbial) construction, sometimes takes the appearance of the objective: inasmuch as intransitive verbs are frequently followed by a substantive, e.
It has afforded a modal interpretation of the world's history, an interpretation that works well, which no facts are known to contradict.
The theory of organic evolution raises this modal interpretation into a causal interpretation by disclosing the factors--such as Variation and Selection--in the long process.
Modal propositions have had a long and eventful history, but they have not been found tractable by the resources of ordinary Logic, and are now generally neglected by the authors of text-books.
A Modal proposition is one in which the predicate is affirmed or denied, not simply but cum modo, with a qualification.
If it is preferred to sing them in unison, the modalsettings will be a guide to the accompanist.
And it will be evident to every one how much music has of late years sought its charm in modal forms, under the guise of national character.
It is significant, as throwing light on the relation of the virtual to the real distinction, that some authors call the modal distinction not a real distinction but a "distinctio media," i.
Hence we conclude that there are accidental modes, or modal accidents, really distinct from the subjects in which they inhere.
Now all extrinsic denominations of a substance do seem on analysis ultimately to resolve themselves partly into relations of the latter to other substances, and partly into modal or absolute accidents of other substances.
The strong synchrony of colonially-breeding species tends to move the modal egg-date toward the time of inception of breeding; as a result colonially-breeding species probably have lower index values than they would have if not colonial.
The present sample is not adequate to indicate extreme or modal dates with reasonable accuracy.
January to mid-September, with a modal period in the first third of May.
Fifteen records of breeding span the period April 1 to June 10; the modal date of egg-laying is in the first ten days of May.
Seven records of breeding span the period May 21 to June 30; the modal date of laying seems to be in late May or early June.
The parts of logic which he treated with most minuteness are modal propositions and modal syllogisms.
The modal and purposive meanings of -do appear in the uses of the gerund.
The full significance of the Modal proper may be stated thus: In view of the fact that some victories have been gained by accident, we are entitled to say of any victory, in the absence of certain knowledge, that it may be one of them.
To raise the question: What is the proper form for a Modal of Possibility, A or I?
Modal auxiliaries= with these three modes form =modal aspects= of the verb.
The inflectional changes in the verb to indicate person, number, tense, voice, mode, and modal aspect.
We may correctly say more important and most important; and on the whole the Adjectives of Mode, or Modal Adjectives, are to be classed as capable of Comparison.
The Celtic tongues have special modal forms to express these modifications of the Verb.
The number of secondary notes following a given primary varies from one to five; the modal number is one, and the average is two in 13 call-groups.
The number of secondary notes following a given primary varies from one to nine; the modal number is one, and the mean is three in 27 call-groups.
High Falls was an ideally modalcommunity in which people tended to linger.
More than modal theta," said the technician, writing something in code on his employment blank.
Unlike modal man, they had never been exhaustively studied.
It was here where Ellaby, modal Ellaby would pass his tests for top-secret work; unsuspected, average Ellaby, would write his name in flaming letters across the pages of history.
I'm less modalthan you are, but I make the best of my divergencies.
Modal verbs may be divided into a multiplicity of divisions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.