• Subjunctive possibility (also called alethic possibility) is a form of modality studied in modal logic. Subjunctive possibilities are the sorts of possibilities...
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  • logic Possibility theory, a mathematical theory for dealing with certain types of uncertainty and is an alternative to probability theory Subjunctive possibility...
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  • attitude toward it. Subjunctive forms of verbs are typically used to express various states of unreality, such as wish, emotion, possibility, judgment, opinion...
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  • Epistemic possibility is often contrasted with subjunctive possibility (or alethic possibility), and although epistemic and subjunctive possibilities are often...
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  • possible". Logical possibility is different from other sorts of subjunctive possibilities. The relationship between modalities (if there is any) is the...
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  • all dependent clauses require it. When the subjunctive appears, the clause may describe necessity, possibility, hopes, concession, condition, indirect commands...
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    the English language lacks distinct inflections for mood, an English subjunctive is recognized in most grammars. Definition and scope of the concept vary...
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  • ) Some examples of moods are indicative, interrogative, imperative, subjunctive, injunctive, optative, and potential. These are all finite forms of the...
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  • Counterfactual conditionals (also contrafactual, subjunctive or X-marked) are conditional sentences which discuss what would have been true under different...
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  • The subjunctive in Dutch is a verb mood typically used in dependent clauses to express a wish, command, emotion, possibility, uncertainty, doubt, judgment...
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    Markov process Stochastic matrix (also known as Markov matrix) Subjunctive possibility (Russian: Андре́й Андре́евич Ма́рков, first name also spelled "Andrei"...
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    opinion or judgment, such as doubts, possibilities, emotions, and events that may or may not occur. The present subjunctive of regular verbs is formed with...
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  • reason State State of nature Style Sub specie aeternitatis Subject Subjunctive possibility Sublime Substance theory Substantial form Substitution Suffering...
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  • hypothetical or subjunctive possibility which could or would be true, but might not be false. Conditional sequences involving subjunctives use intensional...
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  • In Old English, the subjunctive mood is a flexible grammatical instrument for expressing different gradients in thought when referring to events that...
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  • This is especially so among Algonquian languages such as Blackfoot. The subjunctive mood, sometimes called conjunctive mood, has several uses in dependent...
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  • is a superset of the cohortative mood and is closely related to the subjunctive mood but is distinct from the desiderative mood. English has no morphological...
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  • and most subordinate verbs in indirect statements use the subjunctive mood. Subjunctive mood tenses are divided into two groups, primary (present and...
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    with the other languages (loss of dative, replacement of infinitive by subjunctive constructions, object clitics, formation of future with auxiliary verb...
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    conversing when Hamlet enters. For the possibility of a present subjunctive progressive, see English subjunctive. The present perfect (traditionally called...
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  • politely discouraged) That construction consists of might (a modal of possibility) + not (the negative marker) + want (a volitive class II modal). Forms...
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  • the same. The idea of possibility is often expressed by periphrases: by -urus sim, essem, fuerim, fuissem and by a subjunctive tense of possum + present...
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  • eight simple tense–aspect–mood forms, categorized into the indicative, subjunctive and imperative moods, with the conditional mood sometimes viewed as an...
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  • is seldom used. The non-past subjunctive form expresses a wish or command; the past subjunctive form expresses possibility. The indicative mood form is...
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  • 'perhaps', the present subjunctive can mean 'may' or 'could', expressing a possibility. The first example below uses the present subjunctive, and the second...
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  • such as necessity, possibility or impossibility, as in: Alethic modality, a modality in linguistics Subjunctive or alethic possibility, a form of modality...
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    Subjective idealism Objective idealism Philosophers' ship Panpsychism Subjunctive possibility Phenomenology Voluntarism Gestalt psychology Cognitive psychology...
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  • clauses of the present (il presente) to express possibility, opinion, desire, or doubt. The Subjunctive is formed: for regular verbs in -are, by taking...
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  • true, given what we know Subjunctive impossibility, types of statement that cannot be true based on various types of subjunctive modality Logical impossibility...
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  • Contingency (philosophy) (category Possibility)
    Conceptual necessity Indeterminism Logical possibility Modal collapse Modal fallacy Modal logic Subjunctive possibility (Gensler 2017, p. 231) (Kripke 1980,...
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