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 only the latter were true.

`` If asked to choose between a terrible probability and a more terrible possibility, most men will choose the latter ''.

If the latter, Amaryllis would be the correct name for the genus Hippeastrum, and a different name would have to be used for the genus discussed here.

If we are told that at least one of two statements is true ; and also told that it is not the former that is true ; we can infer that it has to be the latter that is true.

If a physical object statement is to be translatable into a sense-data statement, the former must be at least deducible from the latter.

# If the borrowed word rhymes with one or more native words, the latter tend to dictate gender.

If the latter, then Hannibal and his brothers also bore the name ' Barca '.

If the former, then justice is arbitrary ; if the latter, then morality exists on a higher order than God, who becomes little more than a passer-on of moral knowledge.

If she did the latter, then it is very possible that, after the judgment, she danced naked in front of the audience as well, accompanied by the chorus.

If the former, the stitch is denoted as a knit stitch or a plain stitch ; if the latter, as a purl stitch.

If the latter is followed, the lysogenic state is established and maintained.

#* Proof: Then so Thus However, is prime, so or In the former case, hence ( which is a contradiction, as neither 1 nor 0 is prime ) or In the latter case, or If however, which is not prime.

If readers and viewers have a priori views on the current state of affairs and are uncertain about the quality of the information about it being provided by media outlets, then the latter have an incentive to slant stories towards their customers ' prior beliefs, in order to build and keep a reputation for high-quality journalism.

If the latter subgroup cools slowly from a melt, it forms exsolution lamellae because the two components — orthoclase and albite — are unstable in solid solution.

If the latter scaling is used, an interval of proper time,, defined by

If the latter option were to win, a separate referendum would be held where Puerto Ricans would have been given the option of being admitted as a US State " on equal footing with the other states ", or becoming a " sovereign nation, either fully independent from or in free association with the United States.

If however the reverse waist lock is set from the back of the opponent, then the latter would face away from the athlete in the inverted position.

If the latter occurs, ( Alice measures 1 ) then Bob's measurement will return 0 with certainty.

If, however, a statute which did not itself contain any limitation is to be governed by another which is temporary only, the former will also be temporary and dependent upon the existence of the latter.

If an observation inductively supports the former but not the latter, then " inductively support " must refer to something other than changes in the probabilities of propositions.

If a short vowel does not precede the sound, the latter spelling is used, as in took, barge, and launch.

If the latter is the case, then as a consumer decreases consumption of one good in successive units, successively larger doses of the other good are required to keep satisfaction unchanged.

If the latter is too hard, the roots will not penetrate it readily and, as a result, the plant will be pushed up and out of the earth during the process of growth.

If we use NC reductions, that is, reductions which can operate in polylogarithmic time on a parallel computer with a polynomial number of processors, then all P-complete problems lie outside NC and so cannot be effectively parallelized, under the unproven assumption that NC ≠ P. If we use the weaker log-space reduction, this remains true, but additionally we learn that all P-complete problems lie outside L under the weaker unproven assumption that L ≠ P. In this latter case the set P-complete may be smaller.

If the individual survives the initial hemodynamic derailment that acute AI presents as, the left ventricle adapts by eccentric hypertrophy and dilatation of the left ventricle, and the volume overload is compensated for.

If the mechanics are similar, we can also infer that the thermodynamics will also be similar.

If this be true, the possibility exists that an occlusive lesion of the bronchial arteries might cause widespread degeneration of supportive tissue similar to that seen in generalized emphysema.

If an antibody is developed to stabilize a molecule that's similar to an unstable intermediate of another ( potentially unrelated ) reaction, the developed antibody will enzymatically bind to and stabilize the intermediate state, thus catalyzing the reaction.

If they decide to keep it, what about the growing list of other recently discovered similar bodies ( Sedna, Quaoar.

If he told others about it, her reputation would be ruined, as was his after a similar " indiscretion ," even though he was never prosecuted.

If chosen, the SysOp could then initiate a text-to-text chat with the caller ; similar to what commercial websites have used to sell and support products.

If a similar dispute has been resolved in the past, the court is bound to follow the reasoning used in the prior decision ( this principle is known as stare decisis ).

If all the brands are similar, they must all be similarly good.

If a similar ball is charged by the same glass rod, it is found to repel the first: the charge acts to force the two balls apart.

If one concept is defined by another, and the other is defined by the first, this is known as circular definition, somewhat similar to a circular reasoning: neither offers us any enlightenment about what we wanted to know.

If the galaxies are of similar size, the resultant galaxy will appear similar to neither of the two galaxies merging, but would instead be an elliptical galaxy.

In 1951, he summed up his vision as follows: " If the camera is to make a contribution at all to dance, this must be the focal point of its contribution ; the fluid background, giving each spectator an undistorted and altogether similar view of dancer and background.

If the physical material that will be used in production is derived from bones, dilute acid solutions are used to remove calcium and similar salts.

* If possessing the ball, players must dribble ( similar to a basketball dribble ), or can take up to three steps for up to three seconds at a time without dribbling.

If one builds a table T of all record numbers, using such a hash function, then similar records will end up in the same bucket, or in nearby buckets.

* Klal ufrat ukhlal, a generality, a particularity and a generality: If there is a particularity inserted between two generalities, we only add cases similar to the particularity.

* If creatures similar to plesiosaurs lived in the waters of the Loch Ness, they would be seen very frequently as they would have to surface several times a day to breathe.

If so, the equivocation would be similar to the Vedic sandhi representation of intervocalic retroflex-ḍ-as-ḷ -.

If the Mesolithic is more similar to the Paleolithic it is called the Epipaleolithic.

If a past storyline wherein a direct depictions of a then-current president or similar is referenced in a later era, it tends to become updated accordingly, sometimes with an " in-joke " acknowledgement.

" If filmed at the higher speed, Grieve concluded that the creature " walked with a gait pattern very similar in most respects to a man walking at high speed.

He asks why postmodernist intellectuals do not respond like people in other fields when asked, " what are the principles of their theories, on what evidence are they based, what do they explain that wasn't already obvious, etc ?... If requests can't be met, then I'd suggest recourse to Hume's advice in similar circumstances: to the flames.

If I have seen that from an ethical point of view I am just one person among the many in my society, and my interests are no more important, from the point of view of the whole, than the similar interests of others within my society, I am ready to see that, from a still larger point of view, my society is just one among other societies, and the interests of members of my society are no more important, from that larger perspective, than the similar interests of members of other societies ...