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  2. Alethic modality - Wikipedia

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    The criticism states that there is no real difference between "the truth in the world" (alethic) and "the truth in an individual's mind" (epistemic). [3] An investigation has not found a single language in which alethic and epistemic modalities would be formally distinguished, for example by the means of a grammatical mood. [4]

  3. Subjunctive possibility - Wikipedia

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    Subjunctive possibility (also called alethic possibility) is a form of modality studied in modal logic.Subjunctive possibilities are the sorts of possibilities considered when conceiving counterfactual situations; subjunctive modalities are modalities that bear on whether a statement might have been or could be true—such as might, could, must, possibly, necessarily, contingently, essentially ...

  4. Modal logic - Wikipedia

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    The criticism states that there is no real difference between "the truth in the world" (alethic) and "the truth in an individual's mind" (epistemic). [14] An investigation has not found a single language in which alethic and epistemic modalities are formally distinguished, as by the means of a grammatical mood. [15]

  5. Alethic - Wikipedia

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    The adjective alethic refers to the various modalities of truth, such as necessity, possibility or impossibility, as in: Alethic modality , a modality in linguistics Subjunctive or alethic possibility , a form of modality studied in modal logic

  6. Aletheia - Wikipedia

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    A painting that reveals (aletheia) a whole world.Heidegger mentions this particular work of Van Gogh's (Pair of Shoes, 1895) in The Origin of the Work of Art.In the early to mid 20th-century, Martin Heidegger brought renewed attention to the concept of aletheia, by relating it to the notion of disclosure, or the way in which things appear as entities in the world.

  7. Category:Linguistic modality - Wikipedia

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  8. Modal operator - Wikipedia

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    A modal connective (or modal operator) is a logical connective for modal logic.It is an operator which forms propositions from propositions. In general, a modal operator has the "formal" property of being non-truth-functional in the following sense: The truth-value of composite formulae sometimes depend on factors other than the actual truth-value of their components.

  9. Modal verb - Wikipedia

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    A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order, obligation, necessity, possibility or advice.