General Considerations About Modal Sentences

✍ Scribed by Gerold Stahl

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1959
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 651 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-3050
• DOI: 10.1002/malq.19590051407

✦ Synopsis

For the sake of simplicity we restrict ourselves to one-place propositional functions (classes), but without difficulty the considerations could be extended to more-place functions.

2. The sentences of these three types refer practically t o the so-called "alethic modalities" in the (wider) sense of WRIQHT; if we take "alethic modalities" in the strict sense as "modalities in regard to truth and falsehood", only the sentences of the third type refer to them.