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===Alethic===

[[Alethic modality|Alethic]] modal operators (M-operators) determine the fundamental conditions of [[fictional worlds]], especially [[causality]], time-space parameters, and the action capacity of persons. They indicate the possibility, impossibility and necessity of actions, states of affairs, events, people, and qualities in the [[fictional worlds]]. Alethic modal operators play an important role in distinguishing a natural [[fictional world]] from the supernatural and intermediate ones. “The natural world generates stories of human condition” and such stories tend to be tragic from the very beginning, for example [[J.W. Goethe]]’s's ''[[The Sorrows of Young Werther]]''. The structure of the supernatural worlds is usually revealed by the alethic modal operators (a) when they show the presence of physically impossible beings in the [[fictional world]] (gods, spirits, monsters); (b) when selected natural-world persons are granted properties and action capacities that are not available to ordinary persons of that world: becoming invisible, flying on a carpet, etc.; (c) when inanimate objects are anthropomorphized (for example the legend of Don Juan in [[Alexander Pushkin]]’s's ''The Stone Guest''.) The intermediate worlds are usually represented in dreams within a [[fictional world]].

===Deontic===