Sentence examples for conditional premise from inspiring English sources

Accepting the standard (three-valued) truth-conditions for the universal quantifier, Soames (1999) takes the conditional sorites to have some non-true conditional premise.

While there is no one conditional premise of the conditional form which is false, it is nonetheless true according to supervaluation theory that some conditional is.

The conclusion of the conditional form is resisted by noticing that some conditional premise fails to be true; though, admittedly, none is false.

Pointers was not the only important Avicennan text in later Arabic logic: post-Avicennan logicians mined the Cure's volume on the Prior Analytics for the syllogistic with conditional premises, a syllogistic which they modified perhaps even more than they modified Avicenna's modal syllogistic (see Khûnajî 2010: section 10; see also El-Rouayheb's Introduction, xlv xlviii).

Moreover, if the acceptability of a statement is defined as having a value greater than j for 0 < j < 1 and all the conditional premises of the Sorites Paradox do not fall below the value j, then modus ponens does not preserve acceptability, because the conclusion of the Sorites Argument, being evaluated as 0, is unacceptable.

Consider next the work in the Avicennan tradition on syllogisms with conditional and disjunctive premises (see 1.3 above).

So treating the premises would be to require of a valid argument that it preserve certainty: that there must be no probability distributions in which all the premises (conditional or otherwise) are assigned 1 and the conclusion is assigned less than 1.

If we consult Khûnajî's Disclosure, we find one quarter of the work's four hundred pages given over to syllogisms with conditional or disjunctive premises, developing the subject far beyond Avicenna's original insights in the Cure (and often in a manner fairly dismissive of Avicenna's work).

Moreover, the premise of conditional cooperation would also lead us to expect that immediate neighbors would increase their contributions relative to the cover-seed condition.

Disjunctions or conditionals featured as premises in many of the logical paradoxes and sophisms which members of the Dialectical school discussed.

(Depending on the standing of these axioms and premises, justification was conditional or unconditional).