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Modal logic is a collection of formal systems developed to represent statements about necessity and possibility. It plays a major role in philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, and natural language semantics. Modal logics extend other systems by adding unary operators and , representing possibility and necessity respectively. For instance the modal formula can be read as "possibly " while can be read as "necessarily ". Modal logics can be used to represent different phenomena depending on what kind of necessity and possibility is under consideration. When is used to represent epistemic necessity, states that is epistemically necessary, or in other words that it is known. When is used to represent deontic necessity, states that is a moral or legal obligation.