Modality

Keyword: Modality


Dictionary Entry | Posted 11/08/2017
Quote from "Definitions for Baldwin's Dictionary [R]"

The qualification of a predication on the one hand, or of a being on the other, in respect to possibility and necessity. Although assertoriness, with it metaphysical...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 11/08/2017
Quote from "Definitions for Baldwin's Dictionary [R]"

Modality. [Ger. Modalität]. The qualification of a predication by one of the received modes possible, necessary, etc.; and the qualification of a fact by...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 11/08/2017
Quote from "Modality"

There is no agreement among logicians as to what modality consists in; but it is the logical qualification of a proposition or its copula, or the corresponding...

Article in Journal | Posted 18/01/2016
Morgan, Charles G. (1979). Modality, Analogy, and Ideal Experiments according to C. S. Peirce
Encyclopedia Article | Posted 29/07/2014
Lane, Robert: "Principles of Excluded Middle and Contradiction"

Peirce’s principles of excluded middle and contradiction more resembled those of Aristotle than those of contemporary logicians. While the principles themselves are simple and straightforward,...

Manuscript | Posted 25/11/2012
Peirce, Charles S. (1908). The Bed-Rock Beneath Pragmaticism. MS [R] 300

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-1905-1e, pp. 1-65; 33-40; 38-41; 37-38; 40-43.7; plus 64 pp. of fragments running brokenly from p. 1 to p. 60.
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