LessonsModal Propositions: The Eight Simple ModalitiesQuiz

«المنتشرة المطلقة»
Unrestricted necessity at an unspecified time.

The proposition makes affirmation or denial necessary at some unspecified time during the subject's existence. “Unspecified” does not mean no time exists; rather, the judgment does not name which time.

«كل حيوان متنفس بالضرورة وقتا ما»
Every animal is necessarily breathing at some time.

This is the textbook's general example. The key formal point is waqtan mā, “at some time,” not an empirical assertion that all animal species breathe by the same biological mechanism.

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6 — Necessity at an unspecified time

Modal Propositions: The Eight Simple Modalities

«المنتشرة المطلقة»
Unrestricted necessity at an unspecified time.

The proposition makes affirmation or denial necessary at some unspecified time during the subject's existence. “Unspecified” does not mean no time exists; rather, the judgment does not name which time.

«كل حيوان متنفس بالضرورة وقتا ما»
Every animal is necessarily breathing at some time.

This is the textbook's general example. The key formal point is waqtan mā, “at some time,” not an empirical assertion that all animal species breathe by the same biological mechanism.