Sentence examples for conditional imperative from inspiring English sources

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The basic form of such a rule is a conditional imperative: "If in circumstances C, do A!" This is the kind of 'ought' involved in what I call paradigmatic rule-obeying.

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This is put in question in Horty (2007) where a consistent deontic reading in terms of conditional imperatives is presented which also challenges the procedural approach by favoring the conclusions B and C. The left diagram demonstrates that there are distributions such that no As are not-Ds although A ⇒ C and C ↛ D hold.

So it turns out that normativity (contra Kant) always consists of conditional imperatives: if, and only if, one endorses a certain normative point of view, determined by its basic norm, then the norms that follow from it are reason giving, so to speak.

There are 9 verbal moods in Romanian: infinitive, indicative, subjunctive, conditional, presumptive, imperative, supine, participle, and gerund.

The indicative, subjunctive, conditional, presumptive, and imperative moods are "personal", in the sense that they can inflect (to express time, person) and act as a predicative verb in a sentence, while the other four moods, called non-personal (infinitive, supine, participle, and gerund), are used as adjectives or adverbs.

According to Daniel Levin Becker, Oulipians consider "literature in the conditional mood; not the imperative".

Furthermore, we propose that the overshooting factor of customers might be a conditional but not an imperative factor influencing disruptive susceptibility.

The modern language has seven noun cases, two numbers, three persons in the verb, three tenses (present, past, and future), two voices, and three moods (indicative, imperative, and conditional or subjunctive), and it marks verbs for perfective (completed action) and imperfective (action in process or uncompleted action) aspects.

Czech verbs have three grammatical moods: indicative, imperative and conditional.

Even if Kelsen is quite wrong about this conditional nature of moral imperatives, he may be right about the law.

A hypothetical imperative is thus a command in a conditional form.

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