Sentence examples for in conditional form from inspiring English sources

A series of secret meetings, with conversation couched in conditional form ("If the position were to become available... .), worked out the details: as producer, Wolfe would have sole control, with powers — including hiring and firing — never granted to Akalaitis.

A series of secret meetings, with conversation couched in conditional form ("If the position were to become available... .....), worked out the details: as producer, Wolfe would have sole control, with powers — including hiring and firing — never granted to Akalaitis.

The language L+0 cannot report the capture and release properties of truth itself in conditional form (i.e., T-biconditionals): Tr is transparent on this picture, and so Tr ⌜A⌝) and A are fully intersubstitutable.

Further, 'if you want pastrami, try the corner deli' is also a command in conditional form, but strictly speaking it too fails to be a hypothetical imperative in Kant's sense since this command does not apply to us in virtue of our willing some end, but only in virtue of our desiring or wanting an end.

Machiavelli's evaluation of the chances for creating a new, psychologically flexible type of character is extremely guarded, and tends to be worded in conditional form and in the subjective mood: "If it were possible to change one's nature to suit the times and circumstances, one would always be successful" (Machiavelli 1965, 91, trans. altered).

May it stand in the conditional form in which it is here made?

Clark points out that the only argument for this doctrine of the will to power in Nietzsche's published works — in Section 36 of Beyond Good and Evil — is cast in the conditional form: if we accept certain initial hypotheses, then, Nietzsche thinks, the strong doctrine of the will to power follows.

A hypothetical imperative is thus a command in a conditional form.

Note that l(v i [s]) can be defined in a conditional form letting it depend on the value of an additional predicate (e.g., the value of variable v cannot be visible is some state s, unless another variable, say v', takes a special value in that state).

Yet Gödel's theorem has in reality a conditional form, and the alleged truth of the Gödel sentence of a system depends on the assumption of the consistency of the system.

Of course \(\mathsf{PA}^F\) is still inconsistent in virtue of the conditional form of the argument.