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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MODAL LOGIC

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Modal logic is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MODAL LOGIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Modal logic

Modal logic is a type of formal logic primarily developed in the 1960s that extends classical propositional and predicate logic to include operators expressing modality. Modals—words that express modalities—qualify a statement. For example, the statement "John is happy" might be qualified by saying that John is usually happy, in which case the term "usually" is functioning as a modal. The traditional alethic modalities, or modalities of truth, include possibility, necessity, and impossibility. Other modalities that have been formalized in modal logic include temporal modalities, or modalities of time, deontic modalities, epistemic modalities, or modalities of knowledge and doxastic modalities, or modalities of belief. A formal modal logic represents modalities using modal operators. For example, "It might rain today" and "It is possible that rain will fall today" both contain the notion of possibility. In a modal logic this is represented as an operator, Possibly, attached to the sentence "It will rain today". The basic unary modal operators are usually written □ for Necessarily and ◇ for Possibly.

Definition of modal logic in the English dictionary

The definition of modal logic in the dictionary is the logical study of such philosophical concepts as necessity, possibility, contingency, etc. Other definition of modal logic is any formal system capable of being interpreted as a model for the behaviour of such concepts.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MODAL LOGIC

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WORDS THAT END LIKE MODAL LOGIC

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Synonyms and antonyms of modal logic in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «modal logic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MODAL LOGIC

Find out the translation of modal logic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of modal logic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «modal logic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

模态逻辑
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lógica modal
570 millions of speakers

English

modal logic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मोडल तर्क
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

مشروط المنطق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

модальная логика
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lógica modal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মোডাল যুক্তিবিদ্যা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

logique modale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Logik modal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Modallogik
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

様相論理
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

모달 논리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Logika modal
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

phương thức luận lý
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாதிரி தர்க்கம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मॉडेल तर्क
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Modal mantık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

logica modale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

logika modalna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

модальна логіка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

logica modală
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

τροπική λογική
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

modale logika
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

modallogik
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

modal logikk
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about modal logic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MODAL LOGIC»

Discover the use of modal logic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to modal logic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Modal Logic: An Introduction
Chellas here offers an up-to-date and reliable guide of the kind that is very badly needed: his exposition is distinguished by its clarity, economy and elegance, and the book is expected to supplant existing textbooks in the field.
Brian F. Chellas, 1980
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A New Introduction to Modal Logic
This entirely new work guides the reader through the most basic systems of modal propositional logic up to systems of modal predicate with identity, dealing with both technical developments and discussing philosophical applications.
M.J. Cresswell, G.E. Hughes, 2012
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Handbook of Modal Logic
The Handbook of Modal Logic contains 20 articles, which collectively introduce contemporary modal logic, survey current research, and indicate the way in which the field is developing.
Patrick Blackburn, Johan F.A.K. van Benthem, Frank Wolter, 2006
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First-Order Modal Logic
The book covers quantification itself, including the difference between actualist and possibilist quantifiers; equality, leading to a treatment of Frege's morning star/evening star puzzle; the notion of existence and the logical problems ...
M. Fitting, Richard L. Mendelsohn, 1998
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Modal Logic
This modern, advanced textbook reviews modal logic, a field which caught the attention of computer scientists in the late 1970's.
Patrick Blackburn, Maarten de Rijke, Yde Venema, 2002
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Proof Theory of Modal Logic
This volume deals with formal, mechanizable reasoning in modal logics, that is, logics of necessity, possibility, belief, time computations etc.
Heinrich Wansing, 1996
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First Steps in Modal Logic
This is a graduate-level text for a first course in propositional modal logic.
Sally Popkorn, 1994
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A Short Introduction to Modal Logic
A Short Introduction to Modal Logic presents both semantic and syntactic features of the subject and illustrates them by detailed analyses of the three best-known modal systems S5, S4 and T. The book concentrates on the logical aspects of ...
G. E. Mint︠s︡, 1992
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Modal Logic for Open Minds
Many of the chapters are followed by exercises, making this volume ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy, computer science, symbolic systems, cognitive science, and linguistics.
Johan Van Benthem, 2010
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Modal Logic for Philosophers
This 2006 book provides an accessible, yet technically sound treatment of modal logic and its philosophical applications.
James W. Garson, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MODAL LOGIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term modal logic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Human Extinction Risks due to Artificial Intelligence Development …
One of my favorites is associated with modal logic. The bottom line is that from observing the facts, it is impossible to come to any conclusions ... «Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Jul 15»
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Art Review: New paintings, prints by Garry Mitchell and Henry …
Mitchell's abstractions are much jazzier insofar as they rely on dissonance, polyrhythms and even modal logic. To this end, Mitchell's work ... «Press Herald, May 15»
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At All-Night Philosophy Event, Physics, Logic and Snoring
... clearly nocturnal Justin Clarke-Doane, a philosophy professor at Columbia University, distributed handouts for a talk on modal logic. “I didn't ... «Wall Street Journal, Apr 15»
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6 GIS Top Tips -- How Not To Throw Your Computer Out The Window
That's even before you've decided whether north is “true” or not (and we're not talking epistemic modal logic). This applies not only to you as ... «Forbes, Apr 15»
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Reading David Chalmers on the Coming "Singularity"
The Australian-born Chalmers made the zombie argument precise, using an abstruse formal field known as modal logic. The implication is that ... «Discovery Institute, Apr 15»
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Philosopher Robert Stalnaker solves problems the MIT way
Robert Stalnaker · MIT Philosophy · School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences · MIT OpenCourseWare: 24.244 (Modal Logic) · MIT ... «MIT News, Mar 15»
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Trains of thought: Bob
His books include Identity and Discrimination, Vagueness, Knowledge and its Limits, The Philosophy of Philosophy, and Modal Logic as ... «OUPblog, Feb 15»
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Descartes' Ontological Argument And What It Means For How We …
Plantinga's and other contemporary versions, like everything having to do with modal logic, seems to confirm Wittgenstein's indictment of ... «Patheos, Jan 15»
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Non-Thematic Program Comes on First Monday
While its atmosphere is often eerily disjunct, there is an underlying modal logic that unifies the disparate elements. It is at once rhapsodic and ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Dec 14»
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On The Anniversary Of His Death: Why Lawyers Love David Foster …
Wallace's senior thesis in modal logic was published posthumously. His senior thesis in English became his first published novel, The Broom of ... «Above the Law, Sep 14»

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