Sentence examples for conditional assertion from inspiring English sources

So the classical compatibilists analyzed any assertion that an agent could have done otherwise as a conditional assertion reporting what an agent would have done under certain counterfactual conditions.

Emptiness is still very important, but it is simply a conditional assertion of unconditionality.

A conditional assertion φ ψ is in the Rational Closure of K if the rank of φ is strictly less than the rank of φ ∧ ¬ψ.

Put differently, we suggest that locality entitles us to conclude that Niels' system has a real position provided the conditional assertion "If a position measurement is performed on Albert's system, then Niels' system has a real position" holds.

Suppose I say "If you press that switch, there will be an explosion", and my hearer takes me to have made a conditional assertion of the consequent, one which will have the force of an assertion of the consequent if she presses the button.

If I believe that B if A, i.e. (according to Supp) think A&B much more likely than A&~B, this puts me in a position to make a conditional commitment to B: to assert that B, conditionally upon A. If A is found to be true, my conditional assertion has the force of an assertion of B. If A is false, there is no proposition that I asserted.

Consider some of the conditional assertions in the Nixon Diamond: K = {Quaker Pacifist, Republican ¬Pacifist}.

Hence, prima facie we may want to proceed as follows: let R be the result of intersecting all rational consequence relations that extend K (in the sense that the conditional assertions in K hold for ).

It is shown that conditional assertions can be expressed in standard Kripkean modal frames in such a way that system P (under this translation) corresponds to a fragment of the well-known modal logic S4.

We also exhibit a close connection between GPL and various existing formalisms, including possibilistic logic with partially ordered formulas, a logic of conditional assertions in the style of Kraus, Lehmann and Magidor, answer set programming and a fragment of the logic of minimal belief and negation as failure.

Finally, we describe a generalization of similarity networks that can encode more types of asymmetric conditional independence assertions than can ordinary similarity networks.