modally
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- adverb
- /ˈmoʊdəli/
- Formal
- In linguistics, sentences can be analyzed modally to understand their underlying structure.
- modally distinct
Examples
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Though much of his work was devoted to the history of political thought, he considered the activity of being a historian modally distinct from philosophical reflection proper.
Academic text (1991) -
But yeah, so that's what presenting content modally looks like in your app.
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But civil association is modally distinct from this: cives accept not a set of common aims but a commonly recognized system of rules.
Academic text (1991) -
And now that's, that's like a modally charged way of putting it.
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If practice is modally distinct from science, history, philosophy, and poetry, it follows that a politics which purports to be derived from scientific, historical, philosophical, or aesthetic truths is fraudulent.
Academic text (1991) -
The professor explained how different theories can be modally represented in various contexts.
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When discussing philosophical concepts, it's important to separate modally driven arguments from purely factual ones.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Modally comes from the Latin root modus meaning 'manner' or 'measure', and it is related to the English word mode. In logic and grammar, to use a verb modally is to use it in a particular 'mode' or way that shows possibility, necessity, or obligation, which explains the modern meaning.