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CONDITIONAL SENTENCES The conditional sentence provisions are virtually identical to the provisions for probation: the Criminal Code allows the court to suspend a custodial sentence in a case where the offence committed has no minimum sentence and give the offender probation instead; in the same case, the court could, alternatively, hand down a conditional sentence. A conditional sentence now allows offenders, who would otherwise be given a custodial sentence of less than two years, to serve their sentences in the community under strict conditions. A conditional sentence is supposed to be a more onerous penalty than probation, but if a probationer and an offender given a conditional sentence both participate in an attendance centre program in which each is under the same degree of surveillance and given similar programming, the distinction is lost. www.johnhoward.ab.ca /PUB/A1.htm

PHIL 314: Contemporary Philosophy of Mind A Priori Physicalism If physicalism is true then for every true psychological sentence M there is a true physical sentence P such that (i) the material conditional 'If P then M' is necessarily true; and (ii) the material conditional 'If P then M' is knowable a priori. A Posteriori Physicalism If physicalism is true then for every true psychological sentence M there is a true physical sentence P such that (i) the material conditional 'If P then M' is necessarily true; and (ii) the material conditional 'If P then M' is knowable only a posteriori. On the face of it it might be a bit unclear what exactly the distinction between the two theses is. Granted, one thesis says that there is no a priori connection between mental nature and physical nature, while the other thesis says that there is, so there is that different. www.sonoma.edu /users/b/botterel/mindf01.html   (1328 words)

13.3 - conditional tense - the use of conditional tenses In these cases, also the Italian tenses would have to be combined in the same reversed order: past subjunctive and past conditional (first sentence), pluperfect subjunctive and present conditional (second sentence). In any of the two forms, it is very important to use the right subjunctive and conditional tenses, as a mismatch is commonly frowned upon, being the correct match a typical sign of good knowledge of the language. The first part (the condition statement) is a primary sentence, and in Italian it requires a subjunctive tense. www.geocities.com /f_pollett/i-13-3.htm   (2018 words)

1.4.html Given a conditional sentence (at line m) and another sentence that is its antecedent (at line n), conclude the consequent of the conditional. Given a sentence (at line n), conclude a conditional having it as the consequent and whose antecedent appears in the proof as an assumption (at line m). The purpose of presenting proofs is to demonstrate unequivocally that a given set of premises entails a particular conclusion. logic.tamu.edu /Primer/Edition1/1.4.html   (729 words)

Logical Consequence, Deductive-Theoretic Conceptions [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] The structure of this proof is that of a conditional proof: a deduction of a conditional from a set of basis sentence which starts with the assumption of the antecedent, then a derivation of the consequent, and concludes with the conditional. A deduction from K to X is a finite sequence S of sentences ending with X such that each sentence in S (i.e., each intermediate conclusion) is derived from a sentence (or more) in K or from previous sentences in S in accordance with a correct principle of inference. The atomic sentence 'Female(kelly)' is true because, as indicated above, the referent of 'kelly' is in the extension of the property designated by 'Female'. www.iep.utm.edu /l/logcon-d.htm   (729 words)

Word Polish Reference section This sentence is in the present tense, conditional mood. A: No. This sentence is in the conditional mood, which is sometimes confused with the subjunctive mood. The Einstein sentence states one fact or situation that depends on the existence of another fact or the reality of another situation — the condition under which something is true. wordpolish.com /ref/was.html   (527 words)

Michael Dummett [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] Within such a system, the principal operator in a sentence indicates which other sentences may be derived from that sentence, possibly in conjunction with other sentences. Dummett holds that it was an important turning point when Frege described a sentence as a proper name for a truth-value. His philosophical reputation is based partly on his studies of the history of analytical philosophy, and partly on his own contributions to philosophy. www.iep.utm.edu /d/dummett.htm   (8674 words)

Basic English Sentence Structures - Glossary Conditional sentences are used to describe the consequences of a specific action, or the dependency between events or conditions. Conditional sentences consist of an independent clause and a dependent clause. The subject of the sentence "Lions and tigers growled." is the compound subject "lions and tigers". www.scientificpsychic.com /grammar/enggramg.html   (8674 words)

Conditionals Conditional is not a mood, it is just a kind of sentence. Your sentence is not conditional sensu stricto, Latin, it just has a concessive clause. First conditional just requires a present tense in the 'if'clause; it states, as I said, an open condition-- what is said in the condition is possible; and this... www.englishforums.com /search/Conditionals.htm   (462 words)

Basic English Sentence Structures - Glossary Conditional sentences are used to describe the consequences of a specific action, or the dependency between events or conditions. Conditional sentences consist of an independent clause and a dependent clause. The subject of the sentence "Lions and tigers growled." is the compound subject "lions and tigers". www.scientificpsychic.com /grammar/enggramg.html   (1004 words)

round table Since the conditional is usually introduced before the imperfect subjunctive, it is possible to create "if clauses" utilizing the imperfect subjunctive, and asking the students to complete the sentence with a "then clause". The student must change the infinitive to the past conditional and then complete the second half of the sentence with an excuse using the past tense. The first two speakers must then respond in the conditional present contradicting what they hear. www.unc.edu /~ristaino/languages/grammar_table.html   (5798 words)

Armchair Punctuator Sentences that state an objective fact, condition, opinion, or pose a question are in the indicative, or declarative, mood. A sentence in the indicative mood is said to be grammatically unmarked, i.e., the sentence does not express emotion. These kind of sentences may be followed by either a period or question mark. community-2.webtv.net /SOLIS-BOO/Grammar2/page3.html   (773 words)

lec07.html In this lecture our concern is not with subtleties in the logical or semantic properties of conditional sentences, but with the tight connection between the meanings of English conditional sentences and features of their grammatical form. In the simplest way of thinking of this, the truth of a conditional sentence is a product of the truth values of its individual clauses, according to a truth-table that holds the full sentence to be true unless the P part is true while the Q part is false. And speech act conditionals are understood as pre-posing to a speech act a "P" clause that identifies the situation which got the speaker to provide the speech act. www.icsi.berkeley.edu /~kay/bcg/lec07.html   (3561 words)

T4.3 p4 Controversial Symbolizatons But don't be too quick to conclude that (1) really is a material conditional, i.e., that it really is like a horseshoe sentence. As we defined it, an SL conditional sentence 'P Thus the only way this conditional may be false is for its antecedent to be true while its consequent is false. www.oakland.edu /phil/cafe/Tch4_3Controv4.htm   (370 words)

ProblemsWithMaterialImplication.doc The truth value of an ordinary conditional sentence, what is sometimes called a material conditional sentence, is such that it is false if the antecedent is true and the consequent is false, but true in every other situation. One solution to these problems is to make a distinction between material implication and logical implication, such that the latter is stronger. That is, we invent a new connective that represents strict implication, a stronger relation than material implication. www.csus.edu /indiv/n/nogalesp/SymbolicLogicSPG05/SymbolicLogicOverheads/Phil60BeyondClassicalLogic/Phil60NecessityWebPage/ProblemsWithMaterialImplication.doc   (353 words)

Logical Consequence, Deductive-Theoretic Conceptions [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] The structure of this proof is that of a conditional proof: a deduction of a conditional from a set of basis sentence which starts with the assumption of the antecedent, then a derivation of the consequent, and concludes with the conditional. Recall that the rationale behind the →-Intro rule is that we may derive a conditional if we derive the consequent Q from the assumption of the antecedent P, and, perhaps, other sentences occurring earlier in the proof on wider proof margins. According to the →-Intro rule we may derive a conditional if we derive the consequent Q from the assumption of the antecedent P, and, perhaps, other sentences occurring earlier in the proof on wider proof margins. www.iep.utm.edu /l/logcon-d.htm   (9103 words)

logic-counterfactuals made by uttering a conditional sentence in an appropriate context, the latter refers to the grammatical form of the sentence uttered. A material conditional is true just in case either its antecedent is false or its consequent true. Conditional excluded middle holds relative to a given selection function f, but it does not apply to cases where f has not been determined. www.arts.ualberta.ca /~amorton/logic04/logic-counterfactuals.html   (2857 words)

Basic English Sentence Structures - Glossary Conditional sentences are used to describe the consequences of a specific action, or the dependency between events or conditions. Conditional sentences consist of an independent clause and a dependent clause. The subject of the sentence "Lions and tigers growled." is the compound subject "lions and tigers". www.scientificpsychic.com /grammar/enggramg.html   (2857 words)

Truth-conditional Semantics Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography Truth-conditional semantics is the name for an approach to semantics of natural language that sees the meaning of a sentence being the same as, or reducible to, the truth-conditions of that sentence. Home : Search : Encyclopedia : Truth-conditional semantics This approach to semantics is principally associated with Donald Davidson, and carries out for the semantics of natural language what Tarski 's www.fredericksburger.com /encyclopedia/Truth-conditional_semantics   (2857 words)

Truth-Conditional Semantics Knowing meaning of a sentence = knowing conditions under which the sentence is true www.uncc.edu /lvanwall/cogsci/Language2B/sld003.htm   (2857 words)

Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles Home Page Executive Clemency is the power of the Governor to grant a full or conditional pardon, full pardon based on innocence, commutation of sentence, remission of a fine or forfeiture resulting from a criminal conviction, emergency medical reprieve, or 30 day reprieve of execution. WHAT IS Commuting a sentence is changing or reducing the penalty assessed by the court. A conditional pardon does not restore civil rights or rights of citizenship. www.tdcj.state.tx.us /bpp/exec_clem/exec_clem.html   (2857 words)

Material conditional - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is done by recognizing the ordinary language equivalents of the logical terms, which usually include the material conditional, disjunction, conjunction, negation, and (frequently) biconditional. In propositional calculus, or logical calculus in mathematics, the material conditional or the implies operator is a binary truth-functional logical operator yielding the form These exercises give a student a sentence or paragraph of text in ordinary language which the student has to translate into the symbolic language. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Material_implication   (545 words)

Lojban Wiki : Conditionals The conditional is a special case with only one sentence in the scope of the {da’i} (or longer discussions are elaborated conditionals with long conjunctions of claims as consequents). The conditional, “if p were then q would be” when p is true on a branch from the last time p could have become true which is as far from that juncture as the present (presumably non-p) is and q is true at that same time on that same branch. Given the role that such conditionals purportedly play in science, the obvious suggestion is that such a conditional holds just in case it is we can infer the consequent from the antecedent together with all the laws of nature. www.lojban.org /tiki/tiki-print.php?page=Conditionals   (545 words)

0048Conditional mood The conditional mood in Russian is expressed with a complex sentence that consist of a conditional clause and a subjunctive clause. In these sentences, the condition in the conditional clause upon which the situation in the main clause depends is possible, realizable. The conditional clause begins with the conjunction если бы, followed by the verb in the past tense. www.auburn.edu /~mitrege/RWT/tutorials/0048conditional.html   (158 words)

Lojban : Conditionals The conditional is a special case with only one sentence in the scope of the {da’i} (or longer discussions are elaborated conditionals with long conjunctions of claims as consequents). The conditional, “if p were then q would be” when p is true on a branch from the last time p could have become true which is as far from that juncture as the present (presumably non-p) is and q is true at that same time on that same branch. Given the role that such conditionals purportedly play in science, the obvious suggestion is that such a conditional holds just in case it is we can infer the consequent from the antecedent together with all the laws of nature. www.lojban.org /tiki/tiki-print.php?page=Conditionals   (2367 words)

English as a Foreign Language - Publication Catalog The meaning of a sentence is controlled by a number of factors: selection of the appropriate tense for the intended time period, the semantic limitations and restrictions of types of verbs, and the choice of an appropriate time marker that agrees with both the tense and the verb type. The featured tense is presented with its time line, common adverb time markers, and a short explanation of the functions of the tense. At the end of each major section there is a tense review that encourages students to practice text analysis, to select verbs at the discourse level, and to consider the rhetorical function of the passage. exchanges.state.gov /education/engteaching/pubs/GRAM/2109BTOC_nof.htm   (1445 words)

13.1 - conditional tense Conditional tenses require a knowledge of subjunctive ones, because in many cases they both occur in the same sentence. The first one has specific inflections, while the second one is a compound tense made of present conditional + past participle of verb avere for transitive verbs, essere for intransitive ones. Try to become confident with the inflections of these two verbs, since you will need them for the past conditional tense of all the others. www.geocities.com /f_pollett/i-13-1.htm   (210 words)

Sequence of Tenses, Part II: The "Not As Easy, But Not That Hard" Part When sources use both future and future perfect tenses, we cannot cast all of their comments in the conditional tense, because to do so would alter the speaker's meaning as well as confuse the reader. If the context of the sentence shows the order of events, the past perfect tense is made unnecessary. he normal and conditional sequences (which you should have read about now; if not, see “The Normal Sequence” and “The Conditional Sequence” under “When to Use, Part I: The Simple Part”) account for about 85 percent of the process we call sequence of tenses. www.ku.edu /~edit/part2.html   (886 words)

Cultural House of Language - final destination for all your language needs The present conditional tense corresponds to "would." It is used after the imperfect in a conditional sentence. The past conditional is formed by using the conditional of avoir or être and a past participle. It corresponds to "would have" and is used in hypothetical sentences. www.culturalhouse.com /french/03.htm   (1636 words)

APAI Publication - Ottawa Conference 2000 - Workshop E - van der Linden - English This was one of the contributing factors to the abolition of conditional release in 1986. Because conditional release was abolished in The Netherlands during the eighties, there is however at the moment no legal instrument to impose such supervision after release. Conditional release was granted by the Ministry of Justice. www.apaintl.org /Pub-Conf2000-WkshpEVanderLinden-En.html   (1636 words)

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