Concept

Modality (semantics)

Overview

feature of language that allows for communicating things about, or based on, situations which need not be actual

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Philosophers who discussed Modality (semantics)

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Place in the tradition

Part of Modal logic.

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