Sentence examples for conditional judgement from inspiring English sources

A conditional judgement involves two propositions, which play different roles.

Uncertain conditional judgements create difficulties for all propositional theories.

He also needs to make use of this distinction when it comes to conditional judgements.

In §3 we examine what is called the suppositional theory: that conditional judgements essentially involve suppositions.

The oddities are harder to tolerate when we consider conditional judgements about empirical matters.

Later (1984, ch. 6), reacting to Gibbard, Stalnaker seemed more ambivalent about whether conditional judgements express propositions.

One popular approach has been to suggest that conditional judgements are higher order attitudes aimed at the judgements that would be expressed by the sentences which they embed.

It is, at first sight, rather curious that the best-developed and most illuminating suppositional theory should place emphasis on uncertain conditional judgements.

A theory of conditionals aims to give an account of the conditional construction which explains when conditional judgements are acceptable, which inferences involving conditionals are good inferences, and why this linguistic construction is so important.

In dealing with this objection one might appeal to Brentano's own treatment of conditional (or hypothetical) judgements.

The diagnosis of HF requires a compatible clinical syndrome and demonstration of cardiac dysfunction by imaging or functional tests. 1 2 A clinical examination is always the first step in a diagnostic approach to possible HF and further investigation is conditional on initial clinical judgement.