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If and existent
If one has anything like a traditional Jewish or Christian belief, for example then in fact one does have some conception of what God
is: God
is an eternally
existent spiritual being who created
the world, and so forth
.
If ever one
is in a position in which they are unable
to refute a theory, Pyrrhonists reply " Just as, before
the birth of
the founder of
the School
to which you belong,
the theory
it holds was not as yet apparent as a sound theory, although
it was really in existence, so likewise
it is possible
that the opposite theory
to that which you now propound
is already really
existent, though not yet apparent
to us, so
that we ought not as yet
to yield assent
to this theory which at
the moment seems
to be valid
.
If an already
existent matter
must precede everything coming
into existence, clearly nothing, including matter, can come
into existence ex nihilo,
that is, from absolute nothingness
.
If all of
the organisms of
the ecosystem are non
existent,
the ecosystem itself will soon come
to be non
existent.
If and form
If we look at recent art we find
it preoccupied with
form.
If there are any major restrictions, they usually can
be obtained in printed
form.
If cell Af has not previously been assigned as
the information cell of a
form in
the text-form list,
it is now assigned as
the information cell of Af
.
If Af was assigned as
the information cell for Af,
the routine can detect
that Af
is identical
to Af by comparing Af with
the form stored at location Af
.
If each text
form is marked when matched with a dictionary
form,
the text forms not contained in
the dictionary can
be identified when all dictionary forms have been read
.
If cell Af
is an information cell,
it and any information cells in
the Y-region
that have been linked
to Af each contain an address in
the W-region where a potentially matching
form is stored
.
If cell Af
is not an information cell we conclude
that the i-th dictionary
form is not in
the text list
.
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 communication with an entity on
the `` other side ''
is taking place, this too may assume
the form of clairvoyant symbolism
.
If the content of faith
is to be presented today in a
form that can
be `` understanded of
the people '' -- and this,
it must not
be forgotten,
is one of
the goals of
the perennial theological task -- there
is no other choice but
to abandon completely a mythological manner of representation
.
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
.
If the automorphisms of an object X
form a set ( instead of a proper class ), then they
form a group under composition of morphisms
.
If its molecular
form is changed, a tolerogen can become an immunogen
.
If an otherwise perfect wavefront
is " aberrated " by piston and tilt,
it will still
form a perfect, aberration-free image, only shifted
to a different position
.
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 the remainder of
the Conservative Party could muster
the electoral support necessary
to form a government, then Disraeli was now guaranteed high office
.
If the joining of monomers takes place at such a carbon atom,
the free hydroxy group of
the pyranose or furanose
form is exchanged with an OH-side-chain of another sugar, yielding a full acetal
.
If BCG
is accidentally given subcutaneously, then a local abscess may
form ( a BCG-oma )
that can sometimes ulcerate, and may require treatment with antibiotics
.

* Indicative conditional, a conditional in
the form of "
If A then B " in natural languages
If and, then this abbreviated
form is written in Leibniz notation as:
If n ≥ 1 and
is an integer,
the numbers coprime
to n, taken modulo n,
form a group with multiplication as operation ;
it is written as ( Z / nZ )< sup >×</ sup > or Z < sub > n </ sub >< sup >*</ sup >.
If a main-sequence star
is not too massive ( less than approximately 8 solar masses ),
it will eventually shed enough mass
to form a white dwarf having mass below
the Chandrasekhar limit, which will consist of
the former core of
the star
.
If and is
If the circumstances are faced frankly
it is not reasonable
to expect this
to be true
.
If his dancers are sometimes made
to look as if they might
be creatures from Mars, this
is consistent with his intention of placing them in
the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities
.
If a work
is divided
into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine
the order of
the segments for any particular performance
.
If they avoid
the use of
the pungent, outlawed four-letter word
it is because
it is taboo ; ;
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 he
is the child of nothingness, if he
is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil
.
If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield
to it??
If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays
the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl ''
is a striking example of this tendency --
that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control
.
If love reflects
the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if
the person in love betrays decisively what he
is by his behavior in love, then
the writers of
the beat generation are creating a
new literary genre
.
If he
is good, he may not
be legal ; ;
If the man on
the sidewalk
is surprised at this question,
it has served as an exclamation
.
If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who
is defeated by his infantile neurosis??
If many of
the characters in contemporary novels appear
to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history
it is because
the novelist
is often forgetful today
that those things
that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior,
that the ego
is still
the executive agency of personality, and
that all we know of personality
must be discerned through
the ego
.
If he
is a traditionalist, he
is an eclectic traditionalist
.
If our sincerity
is granted, and
it is granted,
the discrepancy can only
be explained by
the fact
that we have come
to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference
to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination
.
If to be innocent
is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at
the start
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