Literary notes about Modality (AI summary)
The term "modality" is employed across literary works to denote both abstract classifications and expressive qualities of experience. In philosophical discourse, it is treated as an essential category—integral to analyses of judgment, possibility, necessity, and the nature of existence—as seen in discussions by thinkers such as Kant and Spinoza ([1], [2], [3]). Meanwhile, in literary narratives like Joyce’s Ulysses, modality emerges as a perceptual quality that shapes how we see and hear the world, reflecting an inescapable feature of sensory engagement ([4], [5], [6]). Additionally, modality is invoked to explore social and aesthetic processes, serving as a tool to interrogate the manner in which ideas, emotions, and cultural practices manifest across different realms of thought ([7], [8]).
- What the modality in a judgement of taste is 91 § 19.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant - All judgments fall under the following classes: Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Modality—terms whose meaning will be presently explained.
— from History of Modern Philosophy by Alfred William Benn - The four classes, quantity, quality, relation, and modality, are each provided with three categories.—
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Nietzsche - H2 anchor [ 3 ] Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce - Exactly: and that is the ineluctable modality of the audible.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce - Into the ineluctable modality of the ineluctable visuality.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce - Modality, which embraces the possible and the impossible, the existent and the non-existent, the necessary [Pg 19] and the contingent.
— from Transcendentalism in New England: A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham - For Ockham, says Hauréau, an idea was but a modality of the thinking subject.
— from Science and Medieval ThoughtThe Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by T. Clifford (Thomas Clifford) Allbutt