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Normal modal logic

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In logic, normal modal logic is a set L of modal formulas such that L contains

  • all propositional tautologies,
  • Kripke's schema: ,

and L is closed under

  • substitution,
  • detachment rule: from A and AB infer B,
  • necessitation rule: from A infer .

The minimal normal modal logic is known as K.