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Modern Modalities : Studies of the History of Modal Theories from Medieval Nominalism to Logical Positivism
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ISBN: 9027726787 9401078122 9400929153 9789401078122 Year: 1988 Volume: vol 33 Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer,

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The word "modem" in the title of this book refers primarily to post-medieval discussions, but it also hints at those medieval mo dal theories which were considered modem in contradistinction to ancient conceptions and which in different ways influenced philosophical discussions during the early modem period. The me dieval developments are investigated in the opening paper, 'The Foundations of Modality and Conceivability in Descartes and His Predecessors', by Lilli Alanen and Simo Knuuttila. Boethius's works from the early sixth century belonged to the sources from which early medieval thinkers obtained their knowledge of ancient thought. They offered extensive discus sions of traditional modal conceptions the basic forms of which were: (1) the paradigm of possibility as a potency striving to realize itself; (2) the "statistical" interpretation of modal no tions where necessity means actuality in all relevant cases or omnitemporal actuality, possibility means actuality in some rel evant cases or sometimes, and impossibility means omnitemporal non-actuality; and (3) the "logical" definition of possibility as something which, being assumed, results in nothing contradic tory. Boethius accepted the Aristotelian view according to which total possibilities in the first sense must prove their met tle through actualization and possibilities in the third sense are assumed to be realized in our actual history. On these presump tions, all of the above-mentioned ancient paradigms imply the Principle of Plenitude according to which no genuine possibility remains unrealized.

Gebrauch und Bedeutung der Modalverben in alemannischen Dialekten
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ISBN: 3515045279 9783515045278 Year: 1985 Volume: 49 Publisher: Wiesbaden: Steiner,

The expression of modality
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ISBN: 3110184354 9783110184358 3110184362 9783110184365 9786612193958 3119164720 1282193953 311019757X 9783110197570 9781282193956 6612193956 9783119164726 Year: 2006 Volume: 1 Publisher: Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter,

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This book covers the essentials of modality and offers both foundational ideas and cutting edge advances. The book consists of what are essentially tutorials on modality and modal notions, covering definitions of modality, morphosyntactic form, conceptual and logical semantics, historical development, and acquisition. There are also specific chapters on modality in Zapotec and American Sign Language, which show the range of forms that modal notions can take. To assist its tutorial function, the book closes with a comprehensive conceptual outline of all the chapters.

Intensional mathematics
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ISBN: 0444876324 9780444876324 9781435686977 1435686977 1281716464 9786611716462 9780080880022 0080880045 Year: 1985 Volume: 113 Publisher: Amsterdam: Elsevier,

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``Platonism and intuitionism are rival philosophies of Mathematics, the former holding that the subject matter of mathematics consists of abstract objects whose existence is independent of the mathematician, the latter that the subject matter consists of mental construction... both views are implicitly opposed to materialistic accounts of mathematics which take the subject matter of mathematics to consist (in a direct way) of material objects...'' FROM THE INTRODUCTIONAmong the aims of this book are: - The discussion of some important philosophical issues using the precision

Die Tonarten der klassischen Vokalpolyphonie
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ISBN: 9031300098 9789031300099 Year: 1974 Publisher: Utrecht: Oosthoek, Scheltema en Holkema,

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