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Remarks on Modalization and Modalities

1991
“Modalization and Modalities” needs no criticism as a careful recounting of Husserl’s genetic analyses of disjunction and negation. If the paper has a weakness, it is in the presentation of the tradition and situation of modal logic and its semantics (as opposed to classical logic and its semantics) in relation to these Husserlian doctrines.
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Modal adverbs and modality scales

Lingua, 1987
Abstract The aim of this paper is to describe the linguistic function of modal adverbs in natural languages. First, I shall introduce the concept of operator, as it should be defined within the framework of GB of TGG. At LF an operator is a function which, from a specific syntactic position, modifies a set of properties, and this information is going
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Modal Synthesis Modal Correction — Modal Coupling

1982
Modal synthesis is a technical term closely related to the development of the finite element technique. Especially in dealing with large structural systems with some thousand physical degrees of freedom, modal synthesis has proved to be an efficient means to reduce computational errors and to minimize computer costs by decomposing the system into ...
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Modal Rationalism and Modal Monism [PDF]

open access: possibleErkenntnis, 2008
Modal rationalism includes the thesis that ideal primary positive conceivability entails primary possibility. Modal monism is the thesis that the space of logically possible worlds is coextensive with the space of metaphysically possible worlds. In this paper I explore the relation between the two theses.
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A Modal Analysis of Presupposition and Modal Subordination [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Semantics, 2005
In this paper I will give a modal two-dimensional analysis of presupposition and modal subordination. I will think of presupposition as a non-veridical propositional attitude. This allows me to evaluate what is presupposed and what is asserted at different dimensions without getting into the binding problem.
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The modal projector

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2011
The superposition of acoustical modes radiated from a transducer can provide directionality from a compact projector. This paper presents the foundation, as well as examples, of piezoelectric ceramic, piezoelectric single crystal, and magnetostrictive versions of this “modal projector.” Measured and analytical, as well as finite element analysis ...
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Modal Concord as Modal Modification

2010
Modal concord is the phenomenon by which certain modal adverbs seem to become semantically vacuous in the presence of modal auxiliaries if the adverb and the auxiliary match in quantificational force (e.g., universal vs existential) and modal flavor (e.g., epistemic vs deontic). We propose that neither concord adverbs nor modal auxiliaries are vacuous:
Pranav Anand, Adrian Brasoveanu
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Modal systems and modal verbs

2001
The modal systems described in the last two chapters share a number of features, not only in the systems themselves, but also, for many languages, in the use of modal verbs and the association with possibility and necessity. A detailed discussion of these has been left to this chapter in order to avoid too much repetition and cross-referencing.
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Quine on Modality

Synthese, 1968
Over the past thirty-two years, Quine has presented a number of arguments against the modalities, his criticism culminating in Word and Object. During the same period, modal logic has flourished as never before, and a number of semantic systems for the different modalities have been proposed, apparently quite unencumbered by Quine’s criticism.
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Modal supereminence and modal realism

Theoria, 1992
Critique du debat sur la survenance modale-reelle. D'apres l'A., ce debat (i) attribue erronement la refutation de la survenance modale-reelle a Putnam; (ii) ne prend pas en compte les problemes serieux relatifs a l'application de la these de la survenance au modal-reel; (iii) il contient l'affirmation non defendable que la survenance modale-reelle est
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