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If and justification
If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.
If A makes a claim, and B then casts doubt on it, As next move would normally be to provide justification.
If we fail to justify simplicity considerations on the basis of the context in which we make use of them, we may have no non-circular justification: " just as the question ' why be rational?
If this notice is not opposed, or no adequate justification for the delay or lack
If the victim is unable to issue the complaint him or herself then a representative may do so on his or her behalf provided that the third party has the written consent of the victim to represent them, or, if the victim is unable to give their own consent, the third party has provided justification for their representing the victim ..
If undercover agents have been used without proper justification, punishment for the committed offense may be reduced ( 1st Senate's decision in 1 StR 148 / 84-23 May, 1984 ).
Given some statement P, it appears reasonable to ask for a justification for P. If that justification takes the form of another statement, P ', one can again reasonably ask for a justification for P ', and so forth.
If there was any justification for this departure from convention, it lay in the fact that most people previously appointed to the position already held a formal title – such as a British knighthood or peerage, or a military rank – whereas Hollingworth's previous style, " The Most Reverend ", derived from his former position as the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane and was considered inappropriate for a person holding an official position in a country which maintains a formal separation between church and state.
* If Magic intercepts provided justification, why ask DeWitt for further justification?
Although his actions can be described as monstrous for the most part, his stated justification is a desire to prevent the alien colonization for as long as possible ; in the episode " One Breath ", he tells Mulder that he is in the conspiracy ( which he calls " the game ") because he believes that the secrets he keeps could, if publicly revealed, threaten the social order that preserves society: " If people were to know of the things that I know ... it would all fall apart ".
If it did not form the framework of later National Socialist ideology, at the very least it provided its adherents with a seeming intellectual justification.
In keeping with this teaching of the Scriptures and the doctors, the Council of Trent defined ; " If anyone say that without the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and without His aid a man can repent in the way that is necessary for obtaining the grace of justification, let him be anathema.
If the justification bar made a full cycle and the line was still not fully justified, the second safety-the pump stop-would prevent the plunger in the metal pot from going down.
" If that were indeed a justification for execution, he reasoned, everybody would have to be afraid to even go to a doctor for fear of what might be discovered.
In his post-script, he writes,If this needs any justification, I can only appeal to Heisenberg himself .” Understandably, Frayn needs to present the characters in an interesting and dramatic light, as well as depicting a setting that no living person has visited, so the accuracy of such dialogue is subject to dwindle by degrees.
If the Fourth infantryman had felt that he needed any further poetic justification, it was given him by news which finally came from Italy that there had been another battle after Magenta.
If the reason to stay married is to not force one's wife to engage in an adulterous second marriage, then if she has already engaged in adultery on her own this justification disappears.

If and induction
If a set is well-ordered ( or even if it merely admits a wellfounded relation ), the proof technique of transfinite induction can be used to prove that a given statement is true for all elements of the set.
If the number of times the game will be played is known, the finite aspect of the game means that ( by backward induction ) the two prisoners will betray each other repeatedly.
If β-lactamase production is inducible, then failure to use the most appropriate β-lactam antibiotic therapy at the onset of treatment will result in induction of β-lactamase production, thereby making further efforts with other β-lactam antibiotics more difficult.
If L ′ is of finite height, or at least verifies the ascending chain condition ( all ascending sequences are ultimately stationary ), then such an x ′ may be obtained as the stationary limit of the ascending sequence x ′< sub > n </ sub > defined by induction as follows: x ′< sub > 0 </ sub >=⊥ ( the least element of L ′) and x ′< sub > n + 1 </ sub >= f ′( x ′< sub > n </ sub >).
If all matters of fact are based on causal relations, and all causal relations are found by induction, then induction must be shown to be valid somehow.
If he withdraws his hand from a box that inflicts pain through direct nerve induction, the gom jabbar will kill him instantly.
If the assumption of collective assessment were in place, real-time judgment of ideas, ostensibly an induction of evaluation apprehension, failed to induce significant variance.
If the plate receives a mixture of positive and negative charges as, for example, from an induction coil, a mixed figure results, consisting of a large red central nucleus, corresponding to the negative charge, surrounded by yellow rays, corresponding to the positive charge.
If n = 0 so that X is empty, then the theorem is vacuously true and the base case for induction is verified.
If this transfinite induction is accepted as a finitary method, then one can assert that there is a finitary proof of the consistency of Peano arithmetic.
If N were an internal set, then instantiating the internal induction principle with N, it would follow N = * N which is known not to be the case.
After the induction ceremony she told her Foreign Legionnaire sponsor: " If we ever get out of this alive, I'll pay you a bottle of champagne no matter where we meet.
If an induction causes complications during labor, a Caesarean section is almost always conducted.
If the motor is run as a self exciting induction generator ( SEIG ) the capacitors can either be connected in a delta or c2c arrangement.
* Axiom of induction: If φ ( a ) is a formula, and if for all sets x it follows from the fact that φ ( y ) is true for all elements y of x that φ ( x ) holds, then φ ( x ) holds for all sets x.
If there is a significant possibility of error in action, perhaps because your opponent has not reasoned completely through the backward induction, it may be advantageous ( and rational ) to cooperate in the initial rounds.
If a magnet sticks well to the sole of the pan, it will work on an induction cooking surface.
If the chloroma is persistent after completion of induction chemotherapy, local treatment, such as surgery or radiation therapy, may be considered, although neither has an effect on survival.
If the color used was red, then after the induction phase the achromatic grating appeared slightly red.
In a letter to Charles Lyell about " the foul book ", he expressed his disgust: " If the book be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain ; religion is a lie ; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice ; morality is moonshine ; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen ; and man and woman are only better beasts!
If cut elimination is possible and as a result the subformula property holds, then Craig interpolation is provable via induction over the derivations.
In mathematics ,-induction ( epsilon-induction ) is a variant of transfinite induction, which can be used in set theory to prove that all sets satisfy a given property P. If the truth of the property for x follows from its truth for all elements of x, for every set x, then the property is true of all sets.

If and cannot
If we cannot stop warfare in our own economic system, how can we expect to abolish it internationally??
If the points aren't thrown all the way, the Turnout cannot be locked, and in turn, the signal cannot be cleared.
`` If we cannot tell evil, horror, and insanity from nonsense, what is the future of humor and comedy ''??
If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.
If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.
If the latter knows nothing about the absent sitter except his name ( given by the experimenter ), he cannot possibly give any clues, conscious or unconscious, far less ask leading questions.
If a union cannot perform this function, then collective bargaining is being palmed off by organizers as a gigantic fraud.
If we cannot make explicit choices, how do we know that our set exists?
If there is an overabundance of food hunted, the arctic fox will bury what the family cannot eat.
If the daughter is an only child or her sisters are deceased and have no living issue, she ( or her heir ) is vested with the title ; otherwise, since a peerage cannot be shared nor divided, the dignity goes into abeyance between the sisters or their heirs, and is held by no one.
If the assets used are not identical ( so a price divergence makes the trade temporarily lose money ), or the margin treatment is not identical, and the trader is accordingly required to post margin ( faces a margin call ), the trader may run out of capital ( if they run out of cash and cannot borrow more ) and go bankrupt even though the trades may be expected to ultimately make money.
If nature cannot err, then there are no paradoxes in it ; to Hobbes, the paradox is a form of the absurd, which is inconsistency: " Natural sense and imagination, are not subject to absurdity " and " For error is but a deception ...
If we cannot stay here alive, then we will stay here dead.
If a pair cannot hit downwards, they will use flat strokes in an attempt to gain the attack.
But this destruction, coupled with a protracted siege of Rain ( 9 – 16 July ), caused Prince Eugene to lament "... since the Donauwörth action I cannot admire their performances ", and later to conclude " If he has to go home without having achieved his objective, he will certainly be ruined.
* Indivisibility of certain goods: If a person wants to buy a certain amount of another's goods, but only has for payment one indivisible unit of another good which is worth more than what the person wants to obtain, a barter transaction cannot occur.
If the remaining array to be searched is reduced to zero, then the key cannot be found in the array and a special " Not found " indication is returned.
If players cannot move either die in a roll, given the position of their checkers then that turn is over and the turn passes to the opponent.
If the Crawford rule is in effect, then another option is the Holland rule, which stipulates that after the Crawford game, a player cannot double until after at least two rolls have been played by each side.
If we look at this situation from far above, so that we cannot see the supporters, we see the large balloon as a small object animated by erratic movement.
If a newer software version cannot save files that can be read by the older version, it is not backward compatible with the older version, although it may provide an irreversible upgrade capability for the old files.
If a Banach algebra has unit 1, then 1 cannot be a commutator ; i. e., for any x, y ∈ A.
If a bookmaker follows the rules of the Bayesian calculus in the construction of his odds, a Dutch book cannot be made.
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