‘Modality’ (pub. 11.08.17-13:56). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-modality.
Quote:
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 qualification of a fact or its form, in the ways expressed by the modes possibile, impossibile, contingens, necessarium.
Source:
Peirce, C. S. (1902). Modality. In J. M. Baldwin (Ed.), Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, Vol. II (pp. 89-93). London: Macmillan and Co.
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http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-modality