Denoting modalities of truth, such as necessity, contingency, or impossibility.
‘The final part offers an illustration of how embracing alethic functionalism may help the relativist.’
‘By far, alethic logic has been the field of modal logic which has received the greatest attention.’
‘He advocates alethic realism and traces in detail Putnam's gradual move from alethic anti-realism to alethic realism.’
‘If this is how you define truth, then it would seem that you and the alethic relativist are talking about two completely different concepts.’
‘A basic implementation of the proposed approach has been prototyped in a tool that supports automated verbalization of both alethic and deontic rules.’
Origin
Late 19th century (in the rare sense ‘relating to truth’): from Greek alētheia ‘truth’ + -ic.
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