The Seven Compound Modalities and the Negations of Permanence and Necessity

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• What determines whether a compound modal proposition is affirmative or negative?
• How can “while writing” and “not permanently” occur in one proposition?
• Which simple modality forms the basis of the special conditional?
• In the special customary mode, what characterizes predication while the descriptive title holds?
• What additional qualification do special conditional and special customary share?
• How is the proposition beginning “Necessarily no writer has still fingers ... not permanently” classified by polarity?
• Which structure defines existential non-necessity?
• What does the second phrase in “actually, but not necessarily” do?
• “Zayd is writing, but writing is not essential to him” demonstrates which distinction?
• Which structure defines existential non-permanence?
• In “actually laughing, but not permanently,” what does “not permanently” deny?
• Where do existential non-necessity and non-permanence differ?
• What distinguishes the time condition in the compound special temporal mode?
• In the textbook’s lunar-eclipse example, what does “not permanently” express?
• What is the time condition in the dispersed modality?
• Which two compound modes are distinguished by “at the intervention time” versus “at some time”?
• What is denied by the definition of special possibility?
• Why is being an animal not specially possible for a human in the same way as laughing?
• Which statement correctly compares general and special possibility?
• Which distinction between “not always” and “always not” is correct?
• Which captures “not necessarily” correctly?
• What happens if the scope of negation is shifted in a compound modality?
• Which structure says the writer’s predicate continues while writing but not throughout the person’s entire existence?
• “Actually, but not permanently” identifies which compound kind?
• What is the most useful question when identifying a compound modality?
• Which statement about the compound dispersed mode is correct?
• Which new major topic follows compound modal propositions in the book?
• An initially affirmative compound proposition becomes negative merely because its second part says “not permanently.”
• Both special conditional and special customary include added non-permanence with respect to the subject itself.
• An existential non-necessary proposition may affirm that the predicate actually holds.
• Special possibility says that affirmation and negation are simultaneously true in the same respect.
• Special temporal and dispersed modalities can both include non-permanence, but the first fixes a time and the second does not.