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A conditional that is necessarily true cannot have a true antecedent and a false consequent in any possible world.

There has been some disagreement about whether it is a might or a would conditional that is relevant (for an account of this distinction, see Lewis 1973, 21 24), as well as about which volition is relevant.

Both Russell's and McBrayer's objections alleging skeptical implications of CORNEA depend on interpreting CORNEA as a counterfactual conditional, that is, a subjunctive conditional with a false antecedent.

In this regard, sovereignty is conditional, that is, "a state's legitimacy and the enjoyment of its sovereignty depends on the protection it provides for the human rights of its population" (Scheid 2014, p.13).

One significant limitation of the belief-revision approach is that there is no representation in the object-language of a defeasible or default rule or conditional (that is, of a conditional of the form If p, then normally q or That p would be a prima facie reason for accepting that q).

The relationship between MDR-1 and p53 is conditional, that is, dependent on the cellular environment and drug used.

Various authors have proposed conditionals and bi-conditionals that are not definable in terms of ¬, ∨ and ∧.

But the next section is devoted to some known conditionals that are repudiated when we learn their antecedents.

Lewis was concerned to develop a logic of conditionals that was free of the so called Paradoxes of Material Implication, namely the classical theorems A→ ~A→B) and B→(A→B).

The improbable foreigner that remembered his dream of strangers realized he was a tourist in the eyes of the person that spoke in logical conditionals that was probably a judge or a journalist writing about my friend that was renowned for raising the eyebrows of his pet rabbits with his nomadic life.

This model allows for correlation between the unobserved effect and the explanatory variables by assuming that the conditional distribution of the unobserved effect is normal with a conditional expectation that is a linear index in the observed explanatory variables.