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noun

Modality n.

The quality or state of being modal.

(Logic & Metaph.) A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Modality" Quotes from Famous Books

... The most important modifications of extension are rest and motion. Among the modes of thought are understanding and will. These belong in the sphere of determinate and transitory being and do not hold of the natura naturans: God is exalted above all modality, above will and understanding, as above motion and rest. We must not assert of the natura naturata (the world as the sum of all modes), as of the natura naturans, that its essence involves existence (I. prop. ...

— History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg

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