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 argument is accepted as essentially sound up to this point, it remains for us to consider whether the patient's difficulties in orienting himself spatially and in locating objects in space with the sense of touch can be explained by his defective visual condition.

If tests are to be resumed, the argument went, it is vital that the U. S. make plain that the onus belongs to the Soviet Union.

If it can be claimed that it is ethical to limit the internet and other technology to only users who have the means to utilize these software, then there is no argument against the way things are at the moment ; there is no need to complain if all morality is in affect.

If truly irreducible systems are found, the argument goes, then intelligent design must be the correct explanation for their existence.

If A attempts to support his position with an argument that shows that the law ought to allow him to do the thing in question, then he is guilty of ignoratio elenchi.

If the foregoing argument holds good, Mary of Bethany and the " sinner " are one and the same.

A common argument might be, " If killing an innocent human is always wrong, and all fetuses are innocent humans, then killing a fetus is always wrong.

If S contains two elements that are not pairwise orthogonal ( in particular, the set of all quantum states includes such pairs ) then an argument like that given above shows that the answer is no.

The algorithm for deciding this is conceptually simple: it constructs ( the description of ) a new program t taking an argument n which ( 1 ) first executes program a on input i ( both a and i being hard-coded into the definition of t ), and ( 2 ) then returns the square of n. If a ( i ) runs forever, then t will never get to step ( 2 ), regardless of n. Then clearly, t is a function for computing squares if and only if step ( 1 ) terminates.

If it were different, states would not have the right, nor be in a position, to maintain that minimum of order on which all civilized life rests .” Calling the concept a “ red herring ” he stated: “ This argument has been used by the terrorists themselves, arguing that there is no difference between their activities and those by governments and states.

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.

If unbelief, incorrect beliefs, or poor design are considered evils, then the argument from nonbelief, the argument from inconsistent revelations, and the argument from poor design may be seen as particular instances of the argument from evil.

Thomas Aquinas made this argument in the 13th century, writing, " If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several ; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments one suffices.

If the first person accepts the hypothesis that " All ravens are black " then, according to the argument, about 50 objects whose colors were previously in doubt ( the ravens ) are now thought to be black, while nothing different is thought about the remaining objects ( the non-ravens ).

If Canada holds that the principle of natural prolongation applies to the Juan de Fuca Canyon on its Pacific Ocean coast, the assertion could undermine Canada's argument in the Gulf of Maine boundary dispute.

If all surviving societies have found it necessary to impose some of the same restrictions upon the behavior of their members, this makes a strong argument that these aspects of the moral code are indispensable.

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 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 your source directly quotes or supports your argument ( meaning you either used no signal or " see " in front of your citation ) then you probably do not need a parenthetical.

If yes, then parentheticals may clarify how those sources individually contribute to the argument.

Another common argument is: " If you aren't doing something wrong then you don't have anything to fear.