Sentence examples for conditional with from inspiring English sources

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.

We estimate income and price response at both stages, while the elasticity at stage 2 is conditional with respect to total expenditure for beverages.

Furthermore, while macrophages are 'plastic', it is apparent that such plasticity is quite conditional with some, but not all, properties being reversible and even leading to undesired functions.

If the proposal is an offer, one likely wants the offer to be made – that is, that the conditional with the preferred consequent govern the possibilities for action; but one may be indifferent to whether the conditional with the less-preferred consequent be operable or not.

Another kind of argument appeals to the idea that citizens have a right to a share of inherited assets that is not conditional with respect to willingness to work, though the scope and precise nature of this right remains disputed.

Similarly, if a proposal is a threat, one wishes that the conditional with the least favored consequent were not operative; it may be a matter of indifference, however, whether the other conditional is operative or not.

Several such accounts begin with conditionals with evaluative antecedents.

14. Skyrms (1994) compares Adams's theory of conditionals with different probabilistic models proposed by Skyrms.

Hook's theory has the unhappy consequence that all conditionals with unlikely antecedents are likely to be true.

In addition, 1-entailment automatically satisfies the principle of Specificity: conditionals with more specific antecedents are always given priority over those with less specific antecedents.

The basic idea here is that conditionals with moral antecedents and nonmoral consequents should, together with the moral judgment in the antecedent, license acceptance of the consequent.