If this aspect of death as punishment is not distinguished from the idea of death as natural termination, the conclusion seems inevitable that temporal existence itself is a form of punishment rather than the state into which man is put by the will of the Creator.

" 9: 2 If the passage in Isaiah is interpreted literally, a return to the vegetarian diet of Eden seems to be a natural conclusion. Gen 1: 29-30

If a non-probability survey conducted in the United States finds that 59 % percent of its respondents support a piece of legislation that is the only conclusion that can be drawn, no statement about the target population can be made.

" If Psycho began an exploration of a new sense of absurdity in contemporary life, of the collapse of causality and the diseased underbelly of American Gothic ", he writes, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre " carries this exploration to a logical conclusion, addressing many of the issues of Hitchcock's film while refusing comforting closure ".

If an argument form is valid, the conjunction of the premises will be logically equivalent to the conclusion and this can be clearly seen in a truth table ; it is displayed.

The theorem " If n is an even natural number then n / 2 is a natural number " is a typical example in which the hypothesis is that " n is an even natural number " and the conclusion is that " n / 2 is also a natural number ".

If A ∧ B is true, then B ∧ A is true ; This derivation can be drawn by composing inference rules in such a fashion that premises of a lower inference match the conclusion of the next higher inference.

If one has already accepted the premise, there is no need to reason to the conclusion.

If this argument holds, and facts are taken to be what true statements stand for, then we reach the counter-intuitive conclusion that there is only one fact-" the truth ".

If the rules and logic of deduction are followed, this procedure ensures an accurate conclusion.

If both premises are true, the terms are clear and the rules of deductive logic are followed, then the conclusion of the argument follows by logical necessity.

If the conclusion is false then either one or more of the premises is false or the process of combining the premises is logically invalid.

If the premises are true and the process is logically valid, then the conclusion must be true.

The reasoning behind existential elimination (∃ E ) is as follows: If it is given that there exists an element for which the proposition function is true, and if a conclusion can be reached by giving that element an arbitrary name, that conclusion is necessarily true, as long as it does not contain the name.

If the State had made a reservation to the right in question when acceding to the ICCPR then generally the Committee will respect this, however, in some exceptional cases, they can come to the conclusion that the reservation itself is not acceptable.

If parliament comes to a different conclusion during the second reading, a third reading will be held at least three days later, repeating the debate and vote, and may adopt the amendments from the second reading or finally dismiss the bill.

If either of the propositions is not accepted as true, the conclusion will not be accepted either.

If the data do not contradict the null hypothesis, then only a weak conclusion can be made ; namely that the observed data set provides no strong evidence against the null hypothesis.

If the sample evidence obtained through x-bar equals − 200 and the corresponding t-test statistic equals − 50, the conclusion from the test would be that there is no evidence that the new treatmnent is better than the existing one: it would not report that it is markedly worse, but that is not what this particular test is looking for.

The reject procedure should be a boolean-valued function that returns true only if it is certain that no possible extension of c is a valid solution for P. If the procedure cannot reach a definite conclusion, it should return false.

If a person believes what they are told or convinces himself / herself of the fact, chances are this person will see the expectation to its inevitable conclusion.

If the foreign producer's export price is lower than the normal price and the investigating body proves a causal link between the alleged dumping and the injury suffered by the domestic industry, it comes to a conclusion that the foreign producer is dumping its products.

For example, the rule of inference modus ponens takes two premises, one in the form of " If p then q " and another in the form of " p " and returns the conclusion " q ".

If premises are left unsatisfied in the derivation, then the derivation is a proof of a hypothetical statement: " if the premises hold, then the conclusion holds.

If one follows the reports of the Congress, one finds that there still seems considerable uncertainty in the minds of the leaders themselves about what exactly to do in this matter.

If this seems arbitrary, its effect was to treat citizens of the District of Columbia equally with citizens of the states -- at the expense of expanding a troublesome jurisdiction.

If the transferor has substantial assets other than the claim, it seems reasonable to assume no corporation would be willing to acquire all of its properties in the dim hope of collecting a claim for refund of taxes.

If anything may be predicted in the quicksilver world of retailing, it seems likely that the suburban branch will come to dominate children's clothing ( taking the kid downtown is too much of a production ), household gadgetry and the discount business in big-ticket items.

If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.

If he sometimes seems to approach the symbolic view, at other times he comes very close to a strong realistic doctrine.

If this does not simply reflect Gregory ’ s ignorance of Kentish affairs, which seems unlikely given the close ties between Kent and the Franks, then some assert that Æthelberht ’ s reign cannot have begun before 589.

If, as seems likely from the name, these people were the continental remnants of the Jutish invaders of Kent, then it may be that the marriage was intended as a unifying political move, reconnecting different branches of the same people.

If a subject after submitting to the hypnotic procedure shows no genuine increase in susceptibility to any suggestions whatever, there seems no point in calling him hypnotised, regardless of how fully and readily he may respond to suggestions of lid-closure and other superficial sleeping behaviour.

Clark L. Hull, probably the first major empirical researcher in the field, wrote If a subject after submitting to the hypnotic procedure shows no genuine increase in susceptibility to any suggestions whatever, there seems no point in calling him hypnotised ...

If we should say that no one could possibly know whether water exists a priori, it seems either we cannot know content externalism to be true on the basis of thought experiments or we cannot know what we are thinking without first looking into the world to see what it is like.

If this pronouncement seems hardly justified, now that Wycliffe's writings are in print, it must be borne in mind that not all his philosophical works are extant.

If seen to fruition, which seems likely, the new laws will reduce tourism in the Netherlands dramatically and cost the exchequer millions in lost revenue and well-established business are forecast to go bankrupt.

If that is the case, it seems that not all evils can be dismissed as illusory.

If the only way to come by any approximately coherent conception of God is via a mystical experience, then it seems as though this formulation of God hasn't got enough objectivity to get it off the ground.

If it be the fact, as is asserted by a contemporary, that Benedict validly acquiesced in his deposition, and if, as seems certain, no further protest was made against Leo's position, he may well be regarded as a true pope from July 964, to his death in 965, about the month of March.

If, as seems likely, he died before his fifteenth birthday, he is the shortest-lived monarch in English history ( his great-nephew Edward VI died in his sixteenth year ).

If the micrometer is in good condition, then they are all so near to zero that the instrument seems to read essentially " dead-on " all along its range ; no noticeable error is seen at any locale.

If civil society, then, is taken to be synonymous with the third sector then the question it seems is not ' how important is social capital to the production of a civil society?

He concluded by saying his family are highest priority and, " If I see somewhere that seems safer, happier and will give them a better life than the UK, I ’ ll take them there if I possibly can.

" If he could lift the rock, then it seems that the being could cease to be omnipotent, as the rock was not heavy enough ; if he could not, it seems that the being was not omnipotent to begin with.

If the being can create a stone that it cannot lift, then it seems that it can cease to be omnipotent.