Sentence examples for iff from inspiring English sources

The IMF, say, might pay for the cancellation of debts by revaluing or selling its gold reserves this could conveniently avoid counting the cancelled debt as public spending.A tsunami lessonAnother off-balance-sheet manoeuvre is the International Financing Facility (IFF) championed by Gordon Brown, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer.

(5) is true iff (6) is true.

If w is a normal world, A → B is true at w iff at all worlds where A is true, B is true.

Now Hume's Principle is that the number of Fs is identical to the number of Gs iff F and G are equinumerous.

Now we can quantify away all the non-logical symbols; a sentence φ(P) is valid iff the sentence ∀P φ(P) is valid.

And to a Turing machine we can effectively assign an elementary sentence having models of every finite size iff the machine never halts).

M. Kremer 1988 argues that these interpretations violate the fixed-point conception of truth, according to which the concept of truth is exhausted by the following: truth can be asserted of a sentence iff that sentence can be asserted, and denied of a sentence iff that sentence can be denied.

Two knots are equivalent iff one can be smoothly deformed into the other by stretching, shrinking, twisting, flipping, repositioning or in any other way that does not involve cutting, gluing or passing one strand through another.

For a subset \(B\) of \(S\) let us say that \(B\) supervises \(S\) iff for each \(x \in S\) there is a \ y \in B\) such that the segment \ xy\) lies within \(S\).

A definition \(\mathcal{D}\) is finite iff, for all ground models \(M\), there is a natural number \(m\) such that for all hypotheses \ V\), the result of \(m\) application to \ V\) of the revision rule for \(\mathcal{D}\) in \(M\) is reflexive.

For instance, in a case of conflicting duties, both duties are directed to A iff A's authorization or (failing that) A's interests determine which duty should be performed.