Literary notes about modal (AI summary)
The term modal is employed in literature with a range of meanings that shift according to context. In scientific and statistical discourse, modal often refers to the most frequently occurring or representative value in a given dataset, as seen when determining the modal date for phenomena such as egg-laying or clutch initiation ([1], [2], [3]). In grammatical and logical writings, modal describes propositions or auxiliaries that indicate possibility, necessity, or manner—illustrating distinctions in the way predicates are qualified ([4], [5], [6], [7]). Moreover, modal finds its use in theological and philosophical discussions to differentiate between essential qualities and those that are merely formal or accidental, sometimes even extending to doctrinal debates regarding concepts like the modal Trinity ([8], [9], [10]). Finally, in fields such as music and logic, modal also denotes systems or interpretations derived from specific modes, highlighting its versatile application across diverse literary and scholarly works ([11], [12]).
- —Twenty-four records of breeding span the period May 1 to September 20 ( Fig. 3 ); the modal date for first clutches is May 25.
— from The Breeding Birds of Kansas by Richard F. Johnston - —Forty records of breeding span the period April 10 to July 20 ( Fig. 8 ); the modal date for egg-laying is May 5.
— from The Breeding Birds of Kansas by Richard F. Johnston - The modal date of egg-laying is May 25, and this is likely to be reliable.
— from The Breeding Birds of Kansas by Richard F. Johnston - A modal proposition states the mode or manner in which the predicate belongs to the subject.
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair - Modal verbs may be divided into a multiplicity of divisions.
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham - For the modal auxiliaries, see page 299 .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - Modal auxiliaries, use and meaning, 124 ff.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - He prefers “ instrumental Trinity ” to “ modal Trinity ” as a designation of his doctrine.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong - One of the last notably philosophic heretics was Photinus, bishop of Sirmium, who in 343 revived the doctrine of a “modal” Trinity.
— from A Short History of ChristianitySecond Edition, Revised, With Additions by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson - But his trinity is modal or formal , not real or personal in the usual sense of the word.
— from Servetus and CalvinA Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis - The old modal system was still at the root of both sacred and secular music.
— from The Evolution of Modern Orchestration by Louis Adolphe Coerne - Among the logics that can be used are classical propositonal logic, intuitionistic propositional logic, modal logic, temporal logic, and others.
— from The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
