Indicative Conditional Statement
An Indicative Conditional Statement is a conditional statement (of the form "if P, then Q") whose assertion could be true.
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- It can range from being a Indicative Past Conditional, Indicative Present Conditional, to being a Indicative Future Conditional.
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- See: Conditional Sentence, Logical Connective, Compositionality.
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2023
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- Q: What is an indicative conditional statement? How does it relate to a counter-factual conditional statement?
- A: An indicative conditional statement is a statement of the form "if P, then Q" where P is the antecedent and Q is the consequent, and it asserts that if the antecedent P is true, then the consequent Q must also be true. For example, "if it rains, the streets will be wet."
A counterfactual conditional statement is a type of indicative conditional statement that refers to a situation that is contrary to fact. For example, "if it had rained yesterday, the streets would have been wet." The antecedent "it had rained yesterday" is false, but the statement makes an assertion about what would have happened if the antecedent had been true.
In short, both indicative and counterfactual conditional statements make assertions about the relationship between two events, but indicative conditionals refer to real-world scenarios and counterfactual conditionals refer to hypothetical scenarios that are contrary to fact.
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/indicative_conditional Retrieved:2021-3-9.
- In natural languages, an indicative conditional is a conditional sentence such as "If Leona is at home, she isn't in Paris", whose grammatical form restricts it to discussing what could be true. Indicatives are typically defined in opposition to counterfactual conditionals, which have extra grammatical marking which allows them to discuss eventualities which are no longer possible.
Indicatives are a major topic of research in philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and linguistics. Open questions include which logical operation indicatives denote, how such denotations could be composed from their grammatical form, and the implications of those denotations for areas including metaphysics, psychology of reasoning, and philosophy of mathematics.
- In natural languages, an indicative conditional is a conditional sentence such as "If Leona is at home, she isn't in Paris", whose grammatical form restricts it to discussing what could be true. Indicatives are typically defined in opposition to counterfactual conditionals, which have extra grammatical marking which allows them to discuss eventualities which are no longer possible.