But we have no experience of a single human activity manifesting in any degree the modalities of the numerous and really distinct human activities which experience reveals to us.
Now it is the fact of the Multiplicity in Unity, to be found in each of these modalities of religion, that makes it desirable to study each of them, as far as may be, separately.
It would be difficult to find anything to improve in this noble liberty of these great children of God; nor would a larger influence of the other modalities necessarily restrict this ample range.
In view of the many differences obtaining between them, how otherwise could modalities form a category?
The answer to this is that) since the qualities are only modalities of matter, the technical modalities mentioned by the (Stoics) themselves reduce to matter, and necessarily relate thereto.
It is absurd to assign the third rank to modalities, and even assign to them any place whatever; for all modalities refer to matter.
The theories to which many physicists still cling, which consist in explaining all the modalities of matter by different combinations of movement, start from false premises.
It is by the harmony of the modalities among themselves, and the contribution of each to the unity, that every individual type is formed.
But this division into three modalities or into three states is far from giving the number of the manifestations of being.
But though all of these primordial modalities appear in each concept and in all artistic manifestations, the proportion in which each appears is indefinitely variable.
Zola is not absolute, as but one of the three constituent modalities is omitted, that one being morality.
I borrow this term from Charles Fourier, and I say once for all, that by it I mean not the entire, but the almost exclusive predominance of one or the other of the modalities of the human being.
Indeed, the modalitiesof creative action, in so far as it is still going on in the organization of living forms, are much simplified when they are taken in this way.
We cannot reason indefinitely on the notions of heat, color, or weight: in order to know the modalities of weight or of heat, we must have recourse to experience.
The EMI shall go into liquidation upon the establishment of the ECB; the modalities of liquidation are laid down in the Statute of the EMI.
This dogma appears to resolve time into moments, whereas others regard moments and points as mere modalities of the continuum, that is, as extremities of the parts that can be assigned to it, and not as constituent parts.
And I am somewhat inclined to think that the gifted author of the letter does not greatly differ in opinion from me, although he seems to include all modalities among the realities of which he declares God to be the sole cause.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modalities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
