Sentence examples for if conditional from inspiring English sources

It should be taking the risk of proposing bold and critical, if conditional, answers.

They found unusual -- if conditional -- refuge under the Pontifical states of Avignon.

The Obama administration has signaled a new, if conditional, readiness for dialogue with Iran, but Tehran's response has been ambiguous.

Draghi acted before he finally spoke, with the introduction of a long-term refinancing operation for banks and the subsequent plan to an unlimited, if conditional, E.C.B. bond-buying program.

If conditional, the granting of amnesty occurs only if certain provisions are met.

Taking the context of the effects into account does not, however, solve the problem of causality, since an effect, even if conditional, is still an effect.

They also point out that some constructions are rarer, and harder to understand, and more peculiar, than would be expected if conditionals had truth conditions and embedded in a standard way.

It is difficult to see why this should be so if conditionals are propositions with truth conditions.

A common complaint against Supp's theory is that if conditionals do not express propositions with truth conditions, we have no account of the behaviour of compound sentences with conditionals as parts (see e.g. Lewis (1976, p. 142)).

And classically this will be the case if and only if the context supports the conditional "if Geraldine is a mormon, then she has had holy underwear that she wore".

If a conditional has truth conditions, one should believe it to the extent that one thinks it is probably true.