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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

alethic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /əˈliːθɪk/
  • /əˈlɛθɪk/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia, “truth”) + -ic.

Meanings

  1. Of or pertaining to the various modalities of truth, such as the possibility or impossibility of something being true.
    • The modal operators □ and ◊ stand for alethic necessity and possibility. 2003, Nicholas Asher, Alex Lascarides, Logics of Conversation, page 46:

Forms

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most alethic Degree=Sup lexicographic
more alethic Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

nonalethic · alethically

Relateds

alethiology

Translations (4)

nl alethisch (logic: pertaining to the modalities of truth) · oc aletic (logic: pertaining to the modalities of truth) · fr aléthique (logic: pertaining to the modalities of truth) · pt alético (logic: pertaining to the modalities of truth)