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What does alethic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (logic) Of or pertaining to the various modalities of truth, such as the possibility or impossibility of something being true.
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By contrast, relativization allows us to define non-alethic modal properties from alethic ones, by relativizing to a class of propositions that contains some falsehoods.
This essay addresses the issue of faultless disagreement and the attendant alethic relativism it seems to confirm.
By far, alethic logic has been the field of modal logic which has received the greatest attention.
Besides Hume's problem, another example of bimodal logic with intrinsic philosophical interest where bridge principles intervene is the logic of physical and alethic modalities.
However, when the searchlight is on the other pole of their being, the identity of their existence takes on a kind of alethic truth.
It argues that deontic, alethic, evaluative, and rationalist construals of the relevant worth relation are wrongheaded.

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