Sentence examples for conditional in from inspiring English sources

I will use "unconditional threat" to pick out the former, non-motivational sense, where it is understood that they may in fact be conditional in form, though not conditioned on conduct by its recipient.

The Westphalian condition of organised anarchy is replaced by conditional state sovereignty; conditional in compliance with citizens' sovereignty.

The first reason is that many theoretical models of social dilemmas assume that cooperation is conditional, in the sense that an individual will only cooperate on the condition that its partners are also cooperating.

Can we use the truth-functional understanding of "if" to propose that the consequent of any conditional (in (i), the consequent is "I used the key") specifies a necessary condition for the truth of the antecedent (in (i), "I opened the door")?

But Mr. Fischer was conditional in his plaudits, saying the speech would be "historic" only if "these ideas are really translated into political action".

If Steinbrenner is so results-oriented, so conditional in his love, why not wait until after a World Series crown to announce his devotion to Torre?

There are high transactions costs of claiming these cash transfers, whereas the additional transactions costs of claiming associated conditional in-kind transfers is relatively small.

This indicates that PES scheme costs may be high and creating an enabling environment could be important to reducing perceived losses, as could investment into conditional in-kind compensation mechanisms.

This proposal is problematic given that it produces truth conditions for conditionals in terms of the truth conditions of other conditionals.

The other source of important work in conditional logic in recent years is computer science.

The theory is compared with Adams conditionals in Skyrms (1994).