Mode
Mode
(Lat. modus, measure, standard, manner)
(a) In Augustinisma measure imprinted upon human minds by God, enabling man to know what is good and true.
(b) In mediaeval Aristotelianisma determination of being-in-general to some limited condition; also, in Non-Thomism, an entitative component of a composite being, as “union” is called a mode combining matter and form in a thing (Olivi and Suarez).
(c) In Spinoza”that which exists in, and is conceived through, something other than itself.” These modes are determinations of the infinite Attributes of Divine Substance; of the attribute, Thought, the two chief modes are intellect and will; of the attribute, Extension, the chief modes are motion and rest. These modes are nothing apart from God’s Substance; they are infinite from one point of view (natura naturans) and finite from another (natura naturata).
(d) In Lockethe simple mode of an idea is the manner of thinking in which one idea is taken several times over, e.g. a dozen; mixed modes of ideas are those types of ideation in which various non-similar simple ideas are combined by the mind so as to produce a complex idea which does not represent a substancee.g. obligation, drunkenness.
(e) In statisticssee Mean. — V.J.B.