It has sometimes been connected with the idealist thesis according to which the object of consciousness, being itself a modality of the consciousness, cannot exist apart from it--that is to say, outside the periods in which it is perceived.
Philosophers who define sensation as a modality of our Ego are much embarrassed later in demonstrating the existence of an outer world.
The categories of modality possess this peculiarity, that they do not in the least determine the object, or enlarge the conception to which they are annexed as predicates, but only express its relation to the faculty of cognition.
Before concluding this fourth section, and at the same time the system of all principles of the pure understanding, it seems proper to mention the reasons which induced me to term the principles of modality postulates.
The principles of modality therefore predicate of a conception nothing more than the procedure of the faculty of cognition which generated it.
The consideration of Modality effects the transition to the forms of logical thought.
The existence of separate categories of modality seems highly doubtful.
These three functions of modality are so many momenta of thought in general.
The consideration of Modality is pertinent to Formal Logic only in so far as concerns special perplexities in the expression of it.
The modality may be treated as part of the predicate without in any way obscuring what it is the design of the syllogism to make clear.
Mr. Venn) that the question of Modalitybelongs properly to Scientific or Inductive Logic, and is out of place in Formal Logic.
Technically speaking, if we extend the name Modality (see p.
A more simple and obviously unwarrantable departure from tradition is to extend the nameModality to any grammatical qualification of a single verb in common speech.
The original Modality is a mode of expression: to apply the name to this character is to shift its meaning.
In logical tradition Modality is a mode of qualifying the certainty of an affirmation.
Venn here desiderates, as he has himself suggested, is a more exact measurement of the Modality of propositions.
This view is technically known as the doctrine of The Modality of the Copula.
He issues orders which are instantly obeyed, helping to maintain universal modality in the country.
Very well, he could use that modality to get out from under.
A new order based not on modality but something else?
What the modality in a judgement of taste is I can say of every representation that it is at least possible that (as a cognition) it should be bound up with a pleasure.
Of the modality of the judgement upon the sublime in nature There are numberless beautiful things in nature about which we can assume and even expect, without being far mistaken, the harmony of every one’s judgement with our own.
What the modality in a judgement of taste is 91 § 19.
The Intellectual modalitywill as readily split up into the Analytic and the Synthetic.
The Historical modality readily gives us the function busy with the Historical Person and the function occupied with the Historical Thing.
An "idea" has little value apart from the modality of the mind which receives it.
Gourmont is concerned with their modality and resonance in emotion.
In this case, quality is nothing real, and modality still less.
Is it that modalityhere possesses greater reality?
According to quantity and modality the judgment of taste claims universal and necessary validity, without this being based upon concepts.
The principle of quantity is the Axiom of Intuition, the principle of quality the Anticipation of Perception; the principles of relation are termed Analogies of Experience, those of modality Postulates of Empirical Thought in General.
Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes.
Exactly: and that is the ineluctablemodality of the audible.
Into the ineluctable modality of the ineluctable visuality.
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