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单词 modalism
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modalismn.

Brit. /ˈməʊdl̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈmoʊdlˌɪz(ə)m/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: modal adj.1, -ism suffix.
Etymology: < modal adj.1 + -ism suffix. Compare earlier modalist n. and adj.
1. Theology. The doctrine that the three Persons of the Trinity are three different modes or aspects of the divine self-revelation, rather than three distinct parts of the divine nature; = Sabellianism n.
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1859 P. Schaff Hist. Christian Church (an. 1–311) 292 Sabellian modalism.
1905 W. Sanday Crit. Fourth Gospel viii. 244 The language of Ignatius tends to Modalism.
1963 Times 8 June 12/5 The well-trained theologian may be inhibited as he steps along the narrow ledge that separates those opposite heresies remembered from his college-days as modalism and monarchianism.
1981 D. L. Guder tr. O. Weber Found. of Dogmatics I. ix. 367 Modalism..insists unconditionally upon the ‘monarchy’ (monarchia) of God.
2. Music. The theory or practice of the use of modes other than the modern major or minor in composition or improvisation.
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1938 Scrutiny 7 173 Roussel evolved his idiom quite spontaneously and it is not true to say that modalism influenced the shape of his melodies.
1980 New Grove Dict. Music XII. 419/2 Gilchrist's..attitude towards modalism in general was fully rooted in the late 19th-centry presuppositions embodied in Sharp's chapter on ‘The Modes’ in that the pentatonic scales are regarded as more ‘primitive’.
1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic viii. 189 Miles was ditching the complexities of bop in favour of blues modalism, signalling the ousting of chord sequences by scales and melodies as the primary basis for improvisation.
3. Philosophy. The theory that the modal notions of necessity and possibility are logically fundamental or irreducible. Also: the advocacy or use of the techniques and operators of formal modal logic (spec. as a means of dealing with questions concerning the postulation of abstract entities).
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1967 H. Putnam in Jrnl. Philos. 64 19 My purpose is not to start a new school in the foundations of mathematics (say, ‘modalism’). Even if in some context the modal-logic picture is more helpful than the mathematical-objects picture, in other contexts the reverse is the case.
1977 K. Fine in A. N. Prior & K. Fine Worlds, Times & Selves viii. 116 Fundamental to Prior's conception of modality were..two theses: The ordinary modal idioms (necessarily, possibly) are primitive; Only actual objects exist. The first thesis might be called Modalism.
1986 Nous 20 335 The assumption of naive modalism is a compound of two views: First, there are real necessities in the nature of things which determine how things have to be... Second, it is legitimate to take the modalities required to express necessity, determinism, and the idea that things have to be..a certain way, as primitive concepts.
1994 Philos. Rev. 103 139 Part 1..defends modalism..against the anti-modalist view.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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