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Also Known As	alethic modality

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Possibility Necessity contingency assertoric proposition deontic modality permissibility necessary existence duty Possible world future contingent proposition Truth Truth-value Lekton Tautology Analytic proposition Term Propositional function Connective Categorical proposition Bridge of Asses