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conditionals — Conditionals are if then statements or the propositions expressed by if then statements. They fall into two main classes: material conditionals, such as If Oswald did not kill Kennedy on 22 November 1963 then somebody else did , and… … Christian Philosophy
conditionals — con di·tion·al || ʃənl adj. limited, dependent on something else; containing a limitation n. (Grammar) conditional clause; conditional mood … English contemporary dictionary
Counterfactual conditional — For other uses, see Counterfactual (disambiguation). A counterfactual conditional, subjunctive conditional, or remote conditional, abbreviated cf, is a conditional (or if then ) statement indicating what would be the case if its antecedent were… … Wikipedia
Material conditional — The material conditional, also known as material implication, is a binary truth function, such that the compound sentence p→q (typically read if p then q or p implies q ) is logically equivalent to the negative compound: not (p and not q). A… … Wikipedia
Twelfth century (The) — The twelfth century John Marenbon INTRODUCTION The twelfth century began and ended with events which mark it off, at least symbolically, as a discrete period in the history of Western philosophy. It was in about 1100 that Abelard the most wide… … History of philosophy
Strict conditional — In logic, a strict conditional is a material conditional that is acted upon by the necessity operator from modal logic. For any two propositions p and q, the formula p ightarrow q says that p materially implies q while Box (p ightarrow q) says… … Wikipedia
dc (computer program) — dc is a cross platform reverse polish desk calculator which supports arbitrary precision arithmetic.[1] It is one of the oldest Unix utilities, predating even the invention of the C programming language; like other utilities of that vintage, it… … Wikipedia
Irreale Bedingungssätze — Kontrafaktische Konditionalsätze, auch kontrafaktische Implikationen oder kurz Kontrafaktuale (counterfactual implication/conditional, counterfactual) werden in der Philosophie Aussagen der Form Wenn ... der Fall wäre, dann wäre genannt.… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Kontrafaktische Implikation — Kontrafaktische Konditionalsätze, auch kontrafaktische Implikationen oder kurz Kontrafaktuale (counterfactual implication/conditional, counterfactual) werden in der Philosophie Aussagen der Form Wenn ... der Fall wäre, dann wäre genannt.… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Kontrafaktische Konditionale — Kontrafaktische Konditionalsätze, auch kontrafaktische Implikationen oder kurz Kontrafaktuale (counterfactual implication/conditional, counterfactual) werden in der Philosophie Aussagen der Form Wenn ... der Fall wäre, dann wäre genannt.… … Deutsch Wikipedia
