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Modal fallacy

The modal fallacy or modal scope fallacy is a type of formal fallacy that occurs in modal logic. It is the fallacy of placing a proposition in the wrong modal scope, most commonly confusing the scope of what is necessarily true. A statement is considered necessarily true if and only if it is impossible for the statement to be untrue and that there is no…

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Modal fallacy → An Introduction, Curtis, Divine Omniscience, Eternal Questions, Free Will, Gary, Hackett Publishing Company, ISBN, Its Philosophy, Logic, Modal Scope Fallacy, More, Norman, October, Possible Worlds, Problems, Raymond, Swartz, The, The Fallacy Files

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