We can therefore talk about strong and weak alethic quirks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Crucially though, the alethic possibility is still quite sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modality and Hamlet] Reference

Prior refers to these non-alethic modalities as ˜quasi-modals™.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sun Is Not] Reference

No, said Einstein, that alethic morphology is not an epistemic certainty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference

Ruptura: There is no guarantee that an alethic quirk will be dewarped at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

The centre-point is the protagonist as human in a worldscape of alethic quirks.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Theory of Modes and Modalities] Reference

Prior introduces the collective term ˜quasi-modals™ for the non-alethic modes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sun Is Not] Reference

Credibility shift: Mappings are possible between alethic and epistemic modalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

“The lemur ate the shoe,” has an alethic modality of “could have happened”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

We use it to create alethic morphologies like Euclidian and non-Euclidian geometry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference

The distinction between alethic and epistemic possibility should not be hard to grasp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference

Purely mimetic fiction may have warp in other respects, but it excludes alethic quirks.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Mimetic and Maieutic Fiction] Reference

“The lemur ate the world,” has an alethic modality of “could not have happened”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Determinacy warp: Where alethic quirks defy credibility, epistemic quirks defy determinacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Don't worry, if it uses even more poncy terms like "alethic modality," it does so with lemurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference

Before, we saw that these two principles are part of the traditional conception of alethic modality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontic Logic] Reference

So, yeah, a (more or less) satisfactory answer to that question (more or less) dewarps the alethic quirk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modality and Hamlet] Reference

Which is to say, the alethic quirk could be a technical, historical, metaphysical or logical impossibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modality and Hamlet] Reference

He was apparently uninfluenced by, and thus did not benefit from, early developments of alethic modal logic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontic Logic] Reference

The contingency of our alethic knowledge has nothing to do with "sense impressions" and "measuring devices".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference

It is an alethic theory that does not and cannot produce predictions testable against epistemic certainties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference

Conceit: With the weak alethic quirks, the “could not happen now” modality opens the door to contingency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Then we apply these to our knowledge — the epistemic certainties — and see which alethic morphology fits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference

Schurz 1991, when an alethic-deontic logic is defined by fusing a pure alethic logic with a pure deontic logic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combining Logics] Reference

Many who profess to a rationalist worldview are no less prone to taking their alethic model as epistemic certainty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference

(See the "Notes Towards a Theory of Narrative Modality" post for what I mean by "alethic quirk" and suchlike terms.).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Theory of Modes and Modalities] Reference

These reflect the idea that we are interested here in alethic (and thus truth-implicating) necessity and its siblings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontic Logic] Reference

None of this crazy talk of elliptical orbits and the area law; that made the alethic model less neat, less symmetrical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference

In 1958 he read Time and Modality and was impressed by the parallel Prior drew between tense and the alethic modalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sun Is Not] Reference

It seems to me that maybe even with the alethic and epistemic quirks there are similar relationships we could tease out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modality and Hamlet] Reference

If you have a conviction that this or that alethic morphology is relevant, that conviction is only a subjective sensation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference

An alethic proposition is a theoretical supposition, an assertion of subjunctive possibility which addresses what “can happen”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference

Scientistic rationalism is however equally non-scientific where it mistakes a highly relevant alethic model for an epistemic certainty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference

It would be hard to find an example of the quirk that better encapsulates the tension of alethic modalities at the heart of the technique.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Sublime] Reference

Whether or not they are subject to their environment is a matter of the worldscape that they inhabit, the alethic quirks that construct it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Theory of Modes and Modalities] Reference

The whole history of science has been a constant uphill struggle against those who ascribe epistemic truth to their favoured alethic model.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference