MODAL LOGIC

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A system of logic whose formal properties resemble certain moral and epistemological concepts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("modal logic" is a kind of...):

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "modal logic"):

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The logical study of necessity and possibility