Definition of alethic in English:
alethic
adjective əˈliːθɪkəˈleTHik
Philosophy Denoting modalities of truth, such as necessity, contingency, or impossibility.
Example sentencesExamples
- If this is how you define truth, then it would seem that you and the alethic relativist are talking about two completely different concepts.
- The final part offers an illustration of how embracing alethic functionalism may help the relativist.
- A basic implementation of the proposed approach has been prototyped in a tool that supports automated verbalization of both alethic and deontic rules.
- He advocates alethic realism and traces in detail Putnam's gradual move from alethic anti-realism to alethic realism.
- By far, alethic logic has been the field of modal logic which has received the greatest attention.
Origin
1950s: from Greek alētheia 'truth' + -ic.