If a state of affairs does not obtain, then the contradictorily opposed state of affairs obtains.
And if we cannot verify or falsify the claim that such a scenario does not obtain, then according to the verificationist theory of meaning held by the logical positivists (Ayer 1959) the scenario is meaningless.
So if the expected value that is assigned to C is less than A on the assumption you know that B obtains, and similary on the assumption that B does not obtain, then the expected value of C is unconditionally less than the expected value of A. Now suppose that you are offered bets on applicants gaining jobs in the example concerning the two departments.
But, if the deduced consequences do not obtain, then we loop back to the abduction stage and come up with some new hypothesis that explains both our original surprising phenomenon and any new phenomena we have uncovered in the course of testing our first, and now failed, hypothesis.
If the efficiency in the first attempt(s) does not obtain >90%, then any modifications to the transfection protocol will be recorded and the procedure will be maintained for the remaining replicates.
But the problem is not so easily diffused, however, because if God does infallibly know that some state of affairs obtains then it cannot be that the state of affairs does not obtain.
If 's is distinct from s*' is defined as '(i) possibly, s obtains and s* does not, (ii) possibly, s does not obtain and s does, (iii) possibly, neither s nor s* obtains, and (iv) possibly, both s and s* obtain', then Premise 4 is trivially true, but Premise 3 begs the question.
A limiting flux does not obtain for some uniform initial states; instead, the solids concentration follows a hysterisis path as the applied flux increases and then decreases.
However, if the condition ((H_{2})) does not hold, then we can only obtain the existence results of one and two positive solution for system (1.1)–(1.1).
If other scientists do not obtain the same result, then that would falsify the central claim of this paper.
Reprieve alleges that Allen "did not obtain any proper or adequate political approval" for the rendition, which was arranged with the then Libyan intelligence chief, Moussa Koussa.
