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Formal modal logics were developed to make precise the mathematical properties of differing conceptions of such notions as possibility, necessity, belief, knowledge and temporal progression which arise in philosophy and natural languages. In the last twenty-five years modal logics have emerged as useful tools for expressing essential ideas in computer science and artificial intelligence.
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Nerode, A., Shore, R.A. (1997). Modal Logic. In: Logic for Applications. Graduate Texts in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0649-1_5
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