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...r logic that can adequately express [[indicative conditional]]s in natural language.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lewis|first1=C.I.|author1-link=C. I. Lewis|last2=Lan The strict conditionals may avoid [[paradoxes of material implication]]. The following statement, f ...

{{Short description|Natural-language "if" sentences about what may be the case}} {{about|indicative conditionals in natural language|the truth-functional connective|Material conditional}} ...

...|title=Faculty {{!}} Linguistics {{!}} UMass Amherst|website=www.umass.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-11-06}}</ref> ...hose expertise includes [[linguistic modality|modals]], [[Conditional mood|conditionals]], [[situation semantics]], and a range of topics relating to the [[syntax– ...

...onditional]], a conditional sentence expressing "if A then B" in a natural language [[Category:Conditionals| ]] ...

...last=Beth|first=Evert Willem|year=1955}}</ref> For instance, the [[English language|English]] sentence "Pat is a fluffy cat" entails the sentence "Pat is a cat ...ar.org/c42d/20aa9d0ca853ca449a13b7a0fe3b34d05893.pdf |journal=Language and Language Teaching Journal |volume=18 |issue=01 |pages=27–38 |doi=10.24071/llt.2015.1 ...

...en either ''Q or S'' has to be true. In sum, if two [[material conditional|conditionals]] are true and at least one of their antecedents is, then at least one of t == Natural language example == ...

...sal]] or linguistic universal, a pattern that occurs systematically across natural languages ** [[Implicational hierarchy]], a chain of implicational universals; if a language has one property then it also has other properties in the chain ...

A '''conditional sentence''' is a sentence in a [[natural language]] that expresses that one thing is [[Contingency (philosophy)|contingent]] ...nd ''counterfactual'' conditionals, exemplified by the following [[English language|English]] examples: ...

...either ''P'' or ''R'' must be false. In sum, if two [[material conditional|conditionals]] are true, but one of their [[consequent]]s is false, then one of their [[ ==Natural language example== ...

| main_interests = {{hlist | [[Decision theory]] | [[philosophy of language]] | [[philosophy of mind]] | [[pragmatics]]}} ...18|work=The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers|publisher=Continuum|language=en|doi=10.1093/acref/9780199754663.001.0001|isbn=9780199754663|access-date= ...

...year=1996 |title=Latin for the Illiterati: Exorcizing the Ghosts of a Dead Language |location=London |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0-415-91775-1 |page=[https://ar An example in [[English language|English]]: ...

...lly considered a viable analysis of [[conditional sentence]]s in [[natural language]]. ...htarrow</math>.{{sfn|Mendelson|2015}} In the prefixed [[Polish notation]], conditionals are notated as <math>Cpq</math>. In a conditional formula <math>p\to q</mat ...

...book|author1=David Anthony Watt|author2=William Findlay|title=Programming language design concepts|year=2004|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-85320- ...e actions and testing their values would change the predicates used in the conditionals. Using this more restrictive notion of reduction, Kosaraju proved Böhm and ...

...e causes etc. Each of these more precise concepts is an explication of our natural concept of cause. Natural language will only specify [[truth conditions]] for propositions of the form "If p, ...

...oks?id=UUq7BQAAQBAJ&q=%22discourse+representation+structures%22+%22natural+language+understanding%22 |date=23 November 2013 |publisher= Springer |isbn= 978-3-3 ...nces such as sentences containing [[negation]], and [[Material conditional|conditionals]]. ...

...]]).<ref>[[Ari Ben-Menahem|Ben-Menahem, A.]], ''Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences'' ([[New York City|New York]]: [[Springer Science ...ofmath.org}}</ref> whereas [[classical logic]] studies the [[extensional]] language of [[logical possibility|necessary]] and [[sufficient]] conditions. ...

{{Short description|Language classification}} ...actic Analysis|date=September 2019|journal=NOBEL Journal of Literature and Language Teaching |volume=10|issue=2|pages=103-116|doi=10.15642/NOBEL.2019.10.2.103- ...

...ed by bounded summation and bounded product. All functions work over the [[natural number]]s. The basic functions, all of them elementary recursive, are: ...' if ''y'' < ''x'', or 0 if ''y'' ≥ ''x''. This function is used to define conditionals and iteration. ...

{{Short description|Conditionals that discuss what would have been if things were otherwise}} ...ld be afraid to be here." Counterfactuals are contrasted with [[indicative conditionals|indicatives]], which are generally restricted to discussing open possibilit ...

...], that is, [[double negative]]s are not used to intensify each other, the language makes frequent use of certain NPIs that correspond in meaning to negative i ...rs]]), the [[antecedent (grammar)|antecedent]] of [[indicative conditional|conditionals]], [[question]]s, the [[Restrictor (linguistics)|restrictor]] of universal ...