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formal logic able to express concepts such as necessity, possibility, provability, obligation, knowledge etc.

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Modal logic is a kind of logic used to represent statements about necessity and possibility. In philosophy and related fields it is used as a tool for understanding concepts such as knowledge, obligation, and causation. For instance, in epistemic modal logic, the formula

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