English noun: modal logic | |||
1. | modal logic (cognition) the logical study of necessity and possibility | ||
Broader (hypernym) | logic | ||
2. | modal logic (cognition) a system of logic whose formal properties resemble certain moral and epistemological concepts | ||
Broader (hypernym) | formal logic, mathematical logic, symbolic logic | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | alethic logic, deontic logic, doxastic logic, epistemic logic | ||