Individual km#modal_logic__intensional_logic__intensionallogic sentences are qualified by modalities such as possibly and necessarily; both "Bush is president" and "2+2=4" are true, yet "Necessarily, Bush is president" is false, while "Necessarily, 2+2=4" is true
>part: deontic_logic epistemic_logic temporal_logic conditional_logic
url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_logic http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-modal/
>part of: formal_logic
>part of: logic.philosophy the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
>part of: philosophy the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
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