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>the different modes of being
>the different modalities of being
how are these different. please, I beg you, help me understand the distinction. my brain feels like pancake batter.

>> No.12986919

two different ways of saying the same thing, by the sound of it. are you reading guenon?

>> No.12986939

mode is position within structure, modality is the actual structure.
different modalities means different structure (say, capitalism vs communism)
mode is where you stand in some (previosuly stated or implicit) structure. say rich, or poor.

>> No.12986977
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12986977

>Mode of being
The universal experience of existence in the sense that one can exist and comprehend it.

>Modality of being
The idiosyncratic particularity of a specific aspect of that mode.

>brainlet

>> No.12986990

>>12986919
no, it's just a general thing I keep encountering across multiple writers

this specific instance was just someone online talking about how
>'the sciences, arts, mathematics are all just the various modalities of being.'

>>12986939
so if I were to say
>capitalism and communism are possible forms of economy
I'd be saying the same thing as
>communism and capitalism are possible modalities of economics?

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12986993

>>12986911
SKKRKRRRROONNKKKK

>> No.12986999

>>12986990
>'the sciences, arts, mathematics are all just the various modalities of being.'
sounds like a pretentious way of saying that these things are the different ways we express ourselves

>> No.12987024

>>12986993
wtf anon
kek
post this as a thread on /mu/

>> No.12987030

>>12987024
BUT SOMEONE BROUGHT UP MODES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtI2KnaxjuQ

>> No.12987038

>>12986977
>Answers questions perfectly.
>Brainlets continue to argue over nothing.

>> No.12987048

>>12986990
>communism and capitalism are possible modalities of economics?
It's more like 'economics is a modality of organizing resources, with specific mode of communism/capitalism'.

You can end up with confusing ontologies. Best to think about modality is "just something with ability to have a mode". Economics has possible modes, people in capitalist system can have specific mode (rich/poor) etc.

>> No.12987064

>>12987038
>Brainlets continue to argue over nothing.
Yes, this is /lit/. Is there anything else we can do for you today?