A Christian theological definition of Modalism according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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Modalism

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Modalism

Originally, a second and third century heresy that teaches there is only one Person in the Godhead.

While the Trinity doctrine teaches three distinct Persons, modalism maintains that one Person (usually the Father) has manifested Himself at different times under different names (Jesus/Spirit) or modes.

Thus, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are three names for the same Person. Originally taught in various forms by Noetus, Praxeas and Sabellius.

(See also: Modalism, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Modalism

Originally, a second and third century heresy that teaches there is only one Person in the Godhead.

While the Trinity doctrine teaches three distinct Persons, modalism maintains that one Person (usually the Father) has manifested Himself at different times under different names (Jesus/Spirit) or modes.

Thus, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are three names for the same Person. Originally taught in various forms by Noetus, Praxeas and Sabellius.

(See also: Modalism, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Monarchianism

View found primarily in the third century that argued that because God's nature is one He cannot exist eternally in three Persons as the Trinitarians claimed.

The two most popular forms of monarchianism were dynamic monarchianism and modalism.

(See also: Monarchianism, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Mode may mean: mode (statistics), the value that has the largest number of observations musical mode, a kind of scale mode (computer interface), distinct method of operation within a computer program, in which the same user input can produce different results depending of the state of the computer modal auxiliary verb, in grammar normal mode, patterns of vibration in acoustics, electromagnetic theory, etc, longitudinal mode or transverse mode Transport mode refers to the < ...

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Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open-source, multiplatform text editor. Vim was first released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991. Since then Vim has added myriad features; many are helpful in editing program source code. Vim remains popular with programmers and users of Unix-like operating systems. Vim text editor - Modal editing. As a descendant of vi, Vim is modal - an unusual feature which tends to confuse new users. All editors are modal in the general sense of having to distinguis ...

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• Vim text editor - Normal
• Vim text editor - Visual
• Vim text editor - Select
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• Vim text editor - Command-line
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• Vim text editor - Evim
• Vim text editor - Learning to use Vim
• Vim text editor - Features and improvements over Vi
• Vim text editor - History

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Interpreting (or interpretation) is an activity that consists of establishing, either simultaneously or consecutively, oral or manual communications between two or more speakers who are not speaking (or signing) the same language. Note that the words interpreting and interpretation can both be used to refer to this activity, the word interpreting is commonly used in the profession and in the field of translation studies in an attempt to avoid the secondary meanings of the word interpretation.< ...

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In linguistics, an auxiliary or helping verb is a verb whose function it is to give further semantic information about the main or full verb which follows it. In English, the extra meaning an auxiliary verb imparts alters the basic form of the main verb to have one or more of the following functions: passive, progressive, perfective, modal, or dummy. Auxiliary verb - Introduction. In stricter linguistic terms than the simple definition above: Ev ...

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• Auxiliary verb - Dummy
• Auxiliary verb - Quasi-auxiliaries
• Auxiliary verb - Properties of the English auxiliary verb
• Auxiliary verb - Negation
• Auxiliary verb - Inversion
• Auxiliary verb - Emphasis
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In theology and the philosophy of religion, an ontological argument for the existence of God is an argument that God's existence can be proved a priori, that is, by intuition and reason alone. In the context of the Abrahamic religions, it was first proposed by the medieval philosopher Anselm of Canterbury in his Proslogion, and important variations have been developed by philosophers such as René Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz, Norman Malcolm, Charles Hartshorne, and Alvin Plantinga. A modal logic versi ...

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• Ontological argument - Anselm's argument
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• Ontological argument - Gaunilo's island
• Ontological argument - Necessary nonexistence
• Ontological argument - Existence as a property
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• Ontological argument - Revisionists
• Ontological argument - Descartes' ontological arguments
• Ontological argument - Plantinga's modal form and contemporary discussion
• Ontological argument - Bibliography

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edit A multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes, including the observable universe, which comprise the absolute whole of physical reality. The structure of the multiverse, the nature of each universe within it and the relationship between the various constituent universes, depend on the specific multiverse hypothesis considered. Multiverses have been hypothesized in physics, philosophy; and fiction, particularly in science fiction. (The specific term "multiverse" ...

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The user interface is the aggregate of means by which people (the users) interact with a particular machine, device, computer program or other complex tool (the system). The user interface provides means of: Input, allowing the users to control the system Output, allowing the system to inform the users (also referred to as feedback) User interface - Introduction. To work with a system, the users need to be able to control the system and assess the state of t ...

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Logic, from Classical Greek λόγος (logos), originally meaning the word, or what is spoken, (but coming to mean thought or reason) is most often said to be the study of arguments, although the exact definition of logic is a matter of controversy among philosophers. However the subject is grounded, the task of the logician is the same: to advance an account of valid and fallacious inference to allow ...

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In philosophy, essence is the attribute (or set of attributes) that make an object or substance what it fundamentally is. In grammar, it is a subject's necessary predicate. The notion of essence has acquired many slightly but importantly different shades of meaning throughout the history of philosophy; most of them derive from its use in Aristotle and its evolution within the scholastic tradition. Essence in this sense is contrasted with accident: essential properties are properties that a substance has necessarily; a ...

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Languages differ in how fine distinctions of mood they make. No language would provide markings for all the moods below, although they are all expressible in any language using sufficient phraseology. In language, modality is the subject concerning so-called modal auxiliary verbs like can, must, and should, that are customarily used to modify the meaning of other verbs (which in turn tend to take an infinitive form). Modal verbs express possibility (and impossibility, necessity, contingency, etc.), permissibility (and obligation, pros ...

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Linguistic modality, Linguistic modality - Explanation, Linguistic modality - Form, Linguistic modality - Mood and modality, Linguistic modality - Deontic moods, Linguistic modality - Epistemic moods, Linguistic modality - other moods, Linguistic modality - Bibliography

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Modal logic - Alethic epistemic. Modal logic is most often used for talk of the so-called alethic modalities: "it is necessarily the case that..." or "it is possibly the case that...." These (which include metaphysical modalities and logical modalities) are most easily confused with epistemic modalities (from the Greek episteme, knowledge): "It is certainly true that..." and "It may (given the available information) be true that..." In ordinary speech both modalities are of ...

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Modal logic, Modal logic - Metaphysical and other modalities, Modal logic - Alethic epistemic, Modal logic - Deontic temporal, Modal logic - Interpretations of modal logic, Modal logic - Formal Rules, Modal logic - Development of modal logic, Modal logic - Acknowledgements

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Although Aristotle's logic is almost entirely concerned with the theory of the categorical syllogism, his work also contains some extended arguments on points of modal logic (such as his famous Sea-Battle Argument in De Interpretatione § 9) and their connection with potentialities and with time. Following on his works, the Scholastics developed the groundwork for a rigorous theory of modal logic, mostly within the context of commentary on the logic of statements about essence and accident. Among the medieval writers, some of the most important works on modal logic can be fou ...

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Modal logic, Modal logic - Metaphysical and other modalities, Modal logic - Alethic epistemic, Modal logic - Deontic temporal, Modal logic - Interpretations of modal logic, Modal logic - Formal Rules, Modal logic - Development of modal logic, Modal logic - Acknowledgements

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Modal logic - Alethic epistemic. Modal logic is most often used for talk of the so-called alethic modalities: "it is necessarily the case that..." or "it is possibly the case that...." These (which include metaphysical modalities and logical modalities) are most easily confused with epistemic modalities (from the Greek episteme, knowledge): "It is certainly true that..." and "It may (given the available information) be true that..." In ordinary speech both modalities are of ...

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Modal logic, Modal logic - Metaphysical and other modalities, Modal logic - Alethic epistemic, Modal logic - Deontic temporal, Modal logic - Interpretations of modal logic, Modal logic - Formal rules, Modal logic - Development of modal logic, Modal logic - A note about intensionality of modal logics, Modal logic - Acknowledgements

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Peter J. King pointed out that it is possible that modal realism is wrong, and that another theory, offering the same benefits but entailing the existence of only one world (this one), is correct.(The Ontology of Possible Worlds,Pembroke College, University of Oxford) Translated into the terms of possible world theory: There is at least one possible world at which modal realism is wrong, and at which another theory, offering the same benefits but entailing the e ...

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Modal realism, Modal realism - The term possible world, Modal realism - Main tenets of modal realism, Modal realism - Discussion, Modal realism - Criticizing modal realism

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In the most common interpretation of modal logic, one considers "all logically possible worlds". If a statement is true in all possible worlds, then it is a necessary truth. If a statement happens to be true in our world, but is not true in all possible worlds, then it is a contingent truth. A statement that is true in some possible world (not necessarily our own) is called a possible truth. Whether this "possible worlds idiom" is the best way to interpret modal logic, and how literally this idiom can be taken, is a live issue for met ...

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Modal logic, Modal logic - Metaphysical and other modalities, Modal logic - Alethic epistemic, Modal logic - Deontic temporal, Modal logic - Interpretations of modal logic, Modal logic - Formal Rules, Modal logic - Development of modal logic, Modal logic - Acknowledgements

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Monarchianism

View found primarily in the third century that argued that because God's nature is one He cannot exist eternally in three Persons as the Trinitarians claimed.

The two most popular forms of monarchianism were dynamic monarchianism and modalism.

(See also: Monarchianism, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)