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modal logic

1. (Logic) the logical study of such philosophical concepts as necessity, possibility, contingency, etc

2. (Logic) the logical study of concepts whose formal properties resemble certain moral, epistemological, and psychological concepts. See also alethic, deontic, epistemic, doxastic

3. (Logic) any formal system capable of being interpreted as a model for the behaviour of such concepts

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Noun	1.	modal logic - the logical study of necessity and possibility logic - the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
	2.	modal logic - a system of logic whose formal properties resemble certain moral and epistemological concepts formal logic, mathematical logic, symbolic logic - any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity alethic logic - the modal logic of necessity and possibility and contingency deontic logic - the modal logic of obligation and permissibility epistemic logic - the modal logic of knowledge and uncertainty and ignorance doxastic logic - the modal logic of belief and disbelief

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Chapter 5 extends the analysis to modal vocabulary and, in particular, reconstructs Kripkean semantics for modal logic in incompatibility semantics.

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One might argue that, although classical modal logic adequately models metaphysical modality in most instances, there are certain cases where it breaks down and ceases to accurately capture metaphysical necessity and metaphysical possibility.

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The paper extends the fuzzy modal logic [1,2, and 4], fuzzy enviromnent [3] and neutrosophic sets, numbers and operators [5-12], together with the last developments of the neutrosophic enviromnent {including (t, i, f)-neutrosophic algebraic structures, neutrosophic triplet structures, and neutrosophic overset / underset / offset} [13-15] passing through the symbolic neutrosophic logic [16], ultimately to neutrosophic modal logic.

Neutrosophic modal logic

--(2009), "Modal Logic", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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This implies that the modal logic S4 is complete in any metric separable dense-in-itself space, for example, [R.sup.n].

Modal Logic Axioms Valid in Quotient Spaces of Finite CW-Complexes and Other Families of Topological Spaces

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Among the topics are Barcan Marcus' courageous philosophical life and work, a philosopher's calling, Barcan formulas in second-order modal logic, whether identity is a functional property, Barcan Marcus on believing without a language, and moral dilemmas from a logical and from a moral point of view.

Modalities, Identity, Belief, and Moral Dilemmas: Themes From Barcan Marcus

Aristotle's Modal Logic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Tony Street's study of Avicenna's modal logic is a further stage in his collaboration with Paul Thom in understanding the significance of this area of thought and particularly in seeing the connection between logic and metaphysics in the Avicennan corpus.

Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion: Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas

A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic. In Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1959, vol.

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From this perspective it is worth mentioning that contemporary modal logic, discussed in the essay of Sanford Shieh (Chapter 13, 'Logic, Modality, and Metaphysics in Early Analytic Philosophy: C.I.

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