Alethic
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The adjective alethic refers to the various modalities of truth, such as necessity, possibility or impossibility, as in:
- Alethic modalityAlethic modalityAlethic modality is a linguistic modality which indicates logical necessity, possibility or impossibility.Alethic modality is often associated with epistemic modality in research. However, it has been questioned whether this modality should be considered distinct from epistemic modality which...
, a modality in linguistics - Subjunctive or alethic possibility, a form of modality studied in modal logic