Categories of Modality and Their Use in Modern Biological Conceptions

The paper discusses the validity of the use of the categories of modality (necessity, randomness and possibility) and clarifies the content of these categories in biology. For this purpose, the article, firstly, explores the first in the history of philosophy understanding of the categories of modality by Democritus, including by means of modern logic. Second, it identifies the main use of the categories studied in modern biology.

Authors
Ivlev Vitaly 1 , Ivleva Marina 1 , Inozemtsev Vladimir 1 , Oseledchik Mikhail 1
Conference proceedings
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 40. 3rd International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2016)
Publisher
Atlantis Press
Language
English
Pages
687-691
Status
Published
DOI
10.2991/icelaic-16.2017.167
Volume
40
Year
2017
Organizations
  • 1 Peoples Friendship University of Russia
Keywords
categories; biological; necessity; randomness; possibility; modality; logic; methodology; scientific knowledge
Date of creation
30.10.2018
Date of change
02.03.2021
Short link
https://repository.rudn.ru/en/records/article/record/35801/
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