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Subjective modality
… general picture of how epistemic and historical modality are related is proposed. Chapter 2, 'Putting "Ought"s Together', argues that deontic but not epistemic 'ought's appear to obey the inference pattern Agglomeration. It gives a new semantics for 'ought', where it is an existential quantifier …
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Coarse Modality
… of natural language is Kratzer’s account of modality. A large part of the subsequent literature on modals has sought to expand the crosslinguistic coverage of that framework, and, in so doing, many new generalizations and constraints have been proposed and re-examined. The present …
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Identity and modality
In 1970, Saul Kripke gave the watershed lectures that is Naming and Necessity. One of his claims, which had far reaching implications, was that all identities are necessary. Despite his wide influence, many worries remained. This essay explores two of the most popular worries with Kripke's project: …
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Sensory Modality Functioning
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Modality and inquiry
… Chapter 2 ('Nonfactualism about Epistemic Modality') situates the work of chapter 1 into a larger picture of content and communication, developing a broadly expressivist account of the language of epistemic modality. Chapter 3 ('Content and Modal Resolution') argues that states of belief …
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Aspects of modality
It is a cross-linguistically robust fact that the same modal auxiliaries come in different flavors: epistemic, deontic, ability, teleological... This fact is neatly captured in a system where each modal has a single lexical entry, where the difference in flavor comes from contextually-provided …
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Conceivability, Apriority and Modality
… between, and the nature of, rationality and modality. The thesis is split into two parts: one on apriority and modality (chs. 2-4), and another on conceivability, apriority/aposteriority and modality (chs. 5 to 7). In Chapter 1, I discuss ‘two-dimensional modal semantics’, arguing that it is …
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Modality and Logical Form
… qualification. Otherwise, a "formal" account of modality lacks the requisite degree of explanatory power. Explaining generally the semantic role of a modal qualification is significantly different from giving a truth theory for constructions of a standard logical grammar of truth functions and …
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Modality, rationalism, and conditionals
… of three interconnected papers on apriority, modality, and conditionals. In "Playground Conditionals," I look at three philosophical debates, each of which turns on the epistemic status of a certain kind of conditional-what I call a playground conditional. I argue that a close consideration of …
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Modality in English syntax.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1972. Ph.D.
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Rigid designation, scope and modality
Thesis. 1979. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy.
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The effects of teacher learning modality and student learning modality upon achievement for first graders
… ability levels among the four perceptual modality groups;3. With cognitive ability controlled, to determine the achievement levels in reading, language, and mathematics among the visual, auditory, and mixed modality groups and among students assigned to the teacher modality groups; and to …
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Dual-modality thermoacoustic and photoacoustic imaging
Diagnosis of early breast cancer is the key to survival. The combined contrasts from thermoacoustic and photoacoustic tomography: TAT and PAT) can potentially predict early stage breast cancer. We have designed and engineered a breast imaging system integrating both thermoacoustic and photoacoustic …
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Nominalism In Mathematics - Modality And Naturalism
… can appeal to the set-theoretic reduction of modality, and so can justify assertions about what is logically possible through an appeal to what exists in the set-theoretic hierarchy. In chapter one, I illustrate the modal involvement of the major modal nominalist views (Chihara's …
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Multi-Modality Assessment Of Language Function
… as part of this dissertation represents a multi-modality study of language structure and function. The primary functional modality employed is task-related electrocorticography (ECoG). This is complemented by discussion and evaluation of previously published functional magnetic resonance imaging …
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The Expression of Modality in English
… work is to examine the various ways in which modality is expressed in English. <br/><br/>Firstly, the fundamental concept 'possible worlds' and a view of modality as 'relativization' is proposed. The way in which the concept of modality is related to utterance functions is then examined and …
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Modality and Method in Hegel's Logic
… assumptions and makes several novel claims about modality and thought. First, while Hegel is often characterized as a strict necessitarian who bans all contingency and open possibilities from his “system,” I show that, far from claiming that contingency is illusory or incomprehensible (as other …
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Adaptive modality selection for navigation systems
… it more difficult to use the tactile sensory modality for other notifications or alerts due to tactile interference. This dissertation proposes a novel navigation system technology: one that adaptively and dynamically selects a navigation system's modality based on a variety of factors. Each …
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Modality and Time in Logical Context
This thesis argues for a theory of neg-raising that is unified with existing theories of free choice (Fox, 2007; Bar-Lev, 2018) and negative polarity items (Crnič, 2014b, 2019b), as motivated by a case study of polarity-sensitive 'until'. I argue that this unification of neg-raising and …
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Perceptual Modality Preference Effect of Student Performance
… taught by a teacher with a similar perceptual modality preference, would have higher grade point averages than students who did not exhibit the same perceptual modality preference as their teachers. The Learning Styles Inventory by Jerry F. Brown and Richard M. Cooper was the diagnostic …
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