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	Modality can refer to: Humanities In law: the basis of legal argumentation in United States constitutional law Philip Bobbitt Philip Chase Bobbitt is an United States of American author, academic, and public servant who has also lectured in UK. He is best known for work on military strategy and constitutional law and constitutional theory, and as the author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History and Terror and Consent .... In theology: Modality (theology) Modality (theology) Modality in Protestantism and Roman Catholic Church Christian theology, is the structure and organization of the local or universal church. In Catholic theology, the modality is the universal Catholic church.... : the organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations. In music Music Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture .... , the subject concerning certain diatonic scale Diatonic scale In music theory, a diatonic scale is a seven note musical scale comprising five whole steps and two half steps, in which the half steps are maximally separated.... s known as musical mode Musical mode Mode is a term from Western music theory having three senses: the rhythmic relationship between long and short values in the late medieval period; in early medieval theory, Interval ; and, most commonly, a concept involving Musical scale and melody type .... s (e.g., Ionian). In sociology Sociology Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of Empiricism and critical theory to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, sometimes with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare.... , modality Modalities (sociology) Modalities are fundamental to understanding the concept behind Structuration. According to Anthony Giddens, modalities explain the properties of the Structure.... is a concept in Anthony Giddens Anthony Giddens Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens is a United Kingdom sociology who is renowned for his theory of structuration and his holism view of modern society.... structuration theory Structuration The theory of structuration, proposed by Anthony Giddens in The Constitution of Society , is an attempt to reconcile theoretical dichotomy of social systems such as Structure and agency, subjective/objective, and microsociology/macrosociology perspectives.... . Linguistics Modality (semiotics) Modality (semiotics) In semiotics, a modality is a particular way in which the information is to be encode for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre.... , the channel by which signs are transmitted (oral, gesture, written) Linguistic modality Linguistic modality In linguistics, modals are expressions broadly associated with notions of possibility and necessity. Modals have a wide variety of interpretations which depend not only upon the particular modal used, but also upon where the modal occurs in a sentence, the meaning of the sentence independent of the modal, the conversational context, and a variety o... , covering expressions of how the world might be and should be. This includes expressions of necessity, permissibility and probability, and negations of these. Linguistic modality is often not sharply distinguished from grammatical mood Grammatical mood Grammatical mood is one of a set of distinctive verb forms that are used to signal Linguistic modality.It is distinct from grammatical tense or grammatical aspect, although these concepts are conflated to some degree in many languages, including English and most other modern Indo-European languages, insofar as the same word patterns are used... . Medicine Stimulus modality, a type of physical phenomenon that one can sense, such as temperature and sound. In cognitive neuroscience Cognitive neuroscience Cognitive neuroscience is an academic field concerned with the scientific study of biological substrate underlying cognition, with a specific focus on the neural substrates of mental processes and their behavioral manifestations.... , cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology is a branch of psychology that investigates internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language.The school of thought arising from this approach is known as cognitivism which is interested in how people mentally represent information processing.... and the philosophy of perception Philosophy of perception The philosophy of perception concerns how mental processes and symbols depend on the world internal and external to the perceiver.Our perception of the external world begins with the senses, which lead us to generate empirical concepts representing the world around us, within a mental framework relating new concepts to preexisting ones.... , any of the qualitatively distinct types of sensation Sense Senses are the physiological methods of perception. The senses and their operation, classification, and theory are overlapping topics studied by a variety of fields, most notably neuroscience, cognitive psychology , and philosophy of perception.... , such as sight, hearing, acceleration, heat and cold. In psychotherapy Psychotherapy Psychotherapy is an intentional interpersonal relationship used by trained psychotherapists to aid a wiktionary:Client in problems of living. It aims to increase the individual's sense of health and reduce their subjective sense of discomfort.... , a method of therapeutic approach. In medical imaging Medical imaging Medical imaging refers to the techniques and processes used to create s of the human body for clinical purposes or medical science .As a discipline and in its widest sense, it is part of biological imaging and incorporates radiology , radiological sciences, endoscopy, thermography, medical photography and microscopy .... , any of the various types of equipment or probes used to acquire images of the body, such as radiography Radiography Radiography is the use of X-rays to view unseen or hard-to-image objects. The main diagnostic purposes of X-rays are to see inside one's body, most commonly the bones which can be viewed at an optimum resolution .... , ultrasound Ultrasound Ultrasound is cyclic sound pressure with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing . Although this limit varies from person to person, it is approximately 20 Hertz in healthy, young adults and thus, 20 kHz serves as a useful lower limit in describing ultrasound.... and magnetic resonance imaging Magnetic resonance imaging GaneshMagnetic resonance imaging , or nuclear magnetic resonance imaging , is primarily a medical imaging technique most commonly used in radiology to visualize the structure and function of the body.... . Any method of therapy that involves therapeutic treatment. Science and Technology Transportation modality modal logic Modal logic A modal logic is any system of mathematical logic#Formal logic that attempts to deal with notions of possibility and necessity. Traditionally, there are three "modes" or "moods" or "modalities" of the Copula to be, namely, Logical possibility, probability, and Necessary_and_sufficient_conditions#Necessary_conditions.... , a form of logic Logic Logic is the study of the principles of valid demonstration and inference. Logic is a branch of philosophy, a part of the classical Trivium . The word derives from Greek language ?????? , fem.... which distinguishes between (logically) "necessary truths" and "contingent truths". Related topics include possibility, impossibility, actuality, and related predicates. modality (human-computer interaction) Modality (human-computer interaction) In human-computer interaction, a modality is the general class of:* a sense through which the human can receive the output of the computer * a sensor or Peripheral device through which the computer can receive the input from the human... , a path of communication between the human and the computer, such as vision or touch. In computer science Computer science Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems.... and particularly computer vision Computer vision Computer vision is the science and technology of machines that see. As a scientific discipline, computer vision is concerned with the theory for building artificial systems that obtain information from images.... , the type of input. For example, black-and-white, color and infrared represent three different modalities for the acquisition of an image. Other uses In advance fee fraud Advance fee fraud An advance-fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain.... (Nigerian 419 Scams), the method of funds transfers. Often used as a key-word in scam baiting Scam baiting Scam baiting is the practice of pretending interest in a fraudulent scheme in order to manipulate a scammer. The purpose of scam baiting might be to waste the scammers' time, embarrass him or her, cause him or her to reveal information which can be passed on to legal authorities, get him or her to waste money, or, in the great majority of cas... . Modal realism Modal realism Modal realism is the view, notably propounded by David Lewis , that all possible worlds are as real as the actual world. It is based on the following tenets: possible worlds existence; possible worlds are not different in kind from the actual world; possible worlds are Reduction entity; the term actual in actual world is indexicality... , a view that all possible worlds are as real as the actual world. See also Mode Mode Mode may mean:* Mode * Mode , the value that has the largest number of observations* Musical mode, a classification system of musical tonalities... Modal Modal Modal may refer to:* Modal , a textile made from spun Beechwood cellulose* Modal bandwidth* Modal jazz* Modal logic* Modal matrix * Modal score, used in testing and education for the most common score...