unsurely

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un·sure

(ŭn-sho͝or′, -shûr′)

adj.

1. Lacking confidence.

2. Uncertain of the facts.

3. Precarious; unstable; unreliable.

un·sure′ly adv.

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unsurely

(ʌnˈʃʊəlɪ)

adv

archaic uncertainly; without surety or certainty; not securely

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The classical Necessity Modal Operator <<[??]P>> meaning <<It is necessary that P>> is extended to Neutrosophic Necessity Operator: [[??].sub.N]P meaning <<It is (t, i, f)-necessary that P>>, using again the Neutrosophic Probability, where similarly <<(t, i, f)- necessity>> means t % necessary (surety that P occurs), i' % indeterminate (indeterminate-surety that P occurs), and f% unnecessary (unsurely that P occurs).

Neutrosophic modal logic

The narrator becomes a modernist "I" on page 9, picking her "way unsurely through the wreckage of our time," and then a comfortable "we" who pokes fun at the unshapely noses of the long dead.

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