If possible worlds can be inconsistent, as in Priest's impossible worlds semantics, then a world where K(p ∧ ¬Kp) holds need not be ruled out by modal logic's standard duality axioms.
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Priest, Graham(philosopher who extended paraconsistent logic)
An Australian philosopher who took da Costa's ideas and developed them further, becoming one of the main defenders of the idea that some contradictions can actually be true.
possible worlds(Leibniz's modal semantics, anticipating contemporary possible-worlds semantics)
Worlds that have existence in a tenuous sense; fictional worlds used to characterize the nature of possibles that are never actualized