Reading Temporal Logic Aloud: an informal guide to CTL* Robert Seater 3/28/05 given a state... A... "all" along all paths beginning here... E... "exists" along some path beginning here... (by default use the initial state of the system) (if given a path, just consider the first state of that path) given a path... F... "finally" in at least one of its states... G... "generally" in all of its states... X... "next" in the second state... fU... "until" f holds until... (cannot be given a state) basic 4 combinations AG... everywhere EF... somewhere AF... you can always get to a place where... EG... it's possible to always satisfy... another example EFAX... somewhere out there is a state from which you can only go to a place where...