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单词 alethic
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alethicadj.

Brit. /əˈliːθɪk/, U.S. /əˈliθɪk/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek ἀλήθεια , -ic suffix.
Etymology: < ancient Greek ἀλήθεια truth (see alethiology n.) + -ic suffix.
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1. Of or relating to truth; of the nature of truth. rare.
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1898 Our Day Sept. 412/1 This systematic relationing of each concept and idea..is above all else a process for the ascertainment of truth... It is..alethic mentation.
1905 D. J. Snider Feeling Psychol. Treated 375 The Feeling of the Absolute..calls forth the pamphysical Sentiment proper, alethic in a new sense, the Feeling of the truth of Psychology.
1999 K. Walters Godlust 57 When the decisive event of truthing occurs, what was previously hidden..from the human spirit is brought forth, God reveals God's presence in the alethic moment.
2. Logic. In modal logic: of or relating to the necessity, contingency, or impossibility of something being true.
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1951 G. H. von Wright Ess. Modal Logic i. 1 Alethic modes or modes of truth...can conveniently be divided into two sub-kinds. Sometimes we consider the modes in which a proposition is (or is not) true... Sometimes we consider the modes in which a property is present (or absent) in a thing.
1978 Philosophy 53 423 Lyons suggests that operations such as negation, tense and alethic, epistemic and deontic modalities can attach to any of the three components of the utterance.
1987 L. W. Sumner Moral Found. Rights ii. 22 The analogy between the two kinds of constraints serves to remind us that deontic categories (required/forbidden) are counterparts, or perhaps special cases, of alethic modal categories (necessary/impossible).
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 May 7/2 An affirmative answer yields what Künne calls the position of ‘alethic realism’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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