The predicate to one, some, all, most or few of the moments of its given Most or few of its instances so temporal modality analyses the application of Just as quantity concerns the application of a term to one, some, all, Temporal existence or the causal conditions of the connection between the terms. Under consideration are not the terms of propositions, but respectively the These have inĬommon with quantity the mode of analysis defined above. Other types ofĬoncern to us here are temporal modality and natural Modality. Quantity is one type of modality, namely the extensional. The other plurals - generality, or majority or minority - are relative Singular and particular frequencies concern mere incidence The greater division of a class is a majority the When we refer to a fraction of the class, it is particular when to its Reference is singular otherwise, our focus is plural. When a unit isįocused on individually and specifically (if only through a pointing to it), the Reference are said to be included in it those not so, excluded.

We may refer to such units in various ways. When phenomena are observed to be alike in some way, they may be grouped into aĬlass, and be regarded as instances of that class. Paradigm of modality is the quantity attribute of (the terms of) propositions. Modality in its widest sense is an attribute of relationships. Let us review some of the modal concepts introduced thus far, before

Subsume propositional logic