particularly suprasegmental cues (intonation). So while there may not be a morphologically based alethic mood, this does not seem to preclude the usefulness of distinguishing between these two types of modes. Alethic modality might then concern what are considered to be apodictic statements.

In Islamic theology (?ilm al-kalam)

In the tradition of Islamic scholastic theology (?ilm al-kalam), theologians developed modal categories analogous to the alethic modalities of logical necessity,

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