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 | ||