COSMOLOGY: Modistae

THE MODISTAE

This is the name given to explain modes of signification of parts of speech, grammatical constructions, concord and government. The modistae have less concerning with the surface grammar, where only deals with forms especially when indicate a contrast in meaning. Therefore, they paid attention to letters or to regular and irregular morphology.

The Modestae in Northern Europe studied solely as a key to Latin classical literature or Bible and become (world is the same for all human beings and that language reflect that world).

The Moditate ignore the morphology of case when defining nouns and verbs. For example there were students of grammar, not of Latin who were interfered in this field after 1964 was called underlying structure.

The following are concepts which these students were discovered on Modistae:

i)      When grammar considered as the Modistae as depending on the structure of reality and also so the rules of the grammar are independent of the language in which they are expressed.

ii)        The basis for grammar is God’s world as it is filtered through the human mind, so, that grammar becomes study of the formation of concepts and their impressibility in well-formed sentences and component structures.

iii)            The parts of speech are monitored by (idealized) language speakers and not just found in the meta-language of the grammarian. This means ideas are the one which suggests part of speech.

iv)            There are active and passive modes of understanding signaling and signifying. The idea which mind has to be in an active mode to perceive and apprehend known as the modus intelligend activus while modus essendi, the modus intelligendi passive is the one for passive understanding. The process in understanding is linear. The passive understanding of the signaling and signifying represents the functional or class meaning of the referent whereas the active mode reveals the property of formal expression.

v)       A thing can be signified in as many ways it can be understood. Within the system of Modistae, a single thing (res) may have a different mode of understanding (modi) for example; a human may be of either masculine or feminine gender. Some properties present in the res may be ignored. For instance, one can speak of a man without reference to his color, even though he has color.

vi)      Each of these words has a distinct modus significandi (mode of signifying). This means that whiteness must exist before white or white things can exist; therefore, white is something having whiteness or what-has whiteness.

vii)  The verb has the modus essendi and modus significandi of being/becoming/action and by the modus distantia is separated from the nominal with which it is in concord, its suppositum. The modus essendi is material and shared with the participle, while modus distintia is a formal characteristics that distinguishes it from the participle which tense, signifying any time whatever, which can be recognized through the motion of acting or suffering (patiendi).

viii)    Mood is an accidental mode of the verb that co signifies dependence of the verb on the suppositum “subject”. Each mood can be resolved into an indicative that spells out the primary illocution together with an infinitive.

ix)            The declinable parties noun, pronoun, verb were referred as “magis principles” since have three basic essences, being (ens), becoming (esse), or ordered distribution i.e. entering certain syntactic relationship with other parties. Indeclinables are parties minus principles whose modus essendi is the modus “disponentis” mode of ordered distribution. Indiclinables are classed as grammatical words defined on their syntactic functions and they fewer modes of meaning than declinable.

Conclusively; the Modistae seeks to know about grammar, we insist that it is first of all necessary to know its principles. Whereby students of grammar (1964) was called underlying structure where use ideas of philosophers to studying this principles, some of these philosophers were ancient ones like Plato and Aristotle.

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