If the Uniqueness Assumption is true, then for every antecedent A, there is a uniquely closest world where A is true.

An inference engine using forward chaining searches the inference rules until it finds one where the antecedent ( If clause ) is known to be true.

This rule base would be searched and the first rule would be selected, because its antecedent ( If Fritz croaks and eats flies ) matches our data.

The rule base is again searched and this time the third rule is selected, because its antecedent ( If Fritz is a frog ) matches our data that was just confirmed.

If the antecedent ( If clause ) of that rule is not known to be true, then it is added to the list of goals ( in order for one's goal to be confirmed one must also provide data that confirms this new rule ).

" If the consequent contains a presupposition trigger, and the triggered presupposition is explicitly stated in the antecedent of the conditional, then the presupposition is blocked.

In French, the period only follows an abbreviation if the last letter in the abbreviation is not the last letter of its antecedent: " M ." is the abbreviation for " monsieur " while " Mme " is that for " madame ".

The term is applied to a variety of brasses and the distinction is largely historical, both terms having a common antecedent in the term latten.

This solemn commitment tends to be referred to as the " Benedictine vow " and is the Benedictine antecedent and equivalent of the evangelical counsels professed by candidates for reception into a religious order.

A conditional proof is a proof that takes the form of asserting a conditional, and proving that the antecedent of the conditional necessarily leads to the consequent.

The assumed antecedent of a conditional proof is called the conditional proof assumption ( CPA ).

This view naturally led to what was then usually called necessitarianism ( the modern term is determinism ): the view that everything in the universe – including human behavior – is completely causally determined by antecedent circumstances and natural law.

One of the most important requirements of experimental research designs is the necessity of eliminating the effects of spurious, intervening, and antecedent variables.

Modern Rabbinical Judaism is monotheistic, but its Canaanite religion antecedent in ancient Israel and Judah ( 10th to 7th centuries BC ) was henotheistic.

The proposition to the left of the arrow is called the antecedent and the proposition to the right is called the consequent.

The second premise is that P, the antecedent of the conditional claim, is true.

Skinner put forward a " three term contingency model " which helped promote analysis of behavior based on the " Stimulus-Response-Consequence Model " in which the critical question is: " Under which circumstances or antecedent ' stimuli ' does the organism engage in a particular behavior or ' response ', which in turn produces a particular ' consequence '?

The referent of the pronoun is often the same as that of a preceding ( or sometimes following ) noun phrase, called the antecedent of the pronoun.

For example, in the sentence That poor man looks as if he needs a new coat, the antecedent of the pronoun he is the noun phrase that poor man.

) Another type of antecedent is that found with relative pronouns, as in the woman who looked at you, where the woman is the antecedent of the relative pronoun who.

A common inaccuracy is the use of the plural pronoun when the antecedent is a distributive expression such as each, each one, everybody, every one, many a man, which, though implying more than one person, requires the pronoun to be in the singular.

The law of detachment ( also known as affirming the antecedent and Modus ponens ) is the first form of deductive reasoning.

Magliocco believed that the latter of these two figures, s ' Araja justa, was the antecedent of a supernatural witch-like figure known as sa Rejusta in Sardinian folklore.

In logic and mathematics, the logical biconditional ( sometimes known as the material biconditional ) is the logical connective of two statements asserting " p if and only if q ", where q is a hypothesis ( or antecedent ) and p is a conclusion ( or consequent ).

* National Guard, better known as the Blueshirts, a 1930s political movement in Ireland, antecedent to the modern Irish political party, Fine Gael

The CNVA's immediate antecedent, a committee known as Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons, was formed by radical Quaker Lawrence Scott.

As placed within the material conditionals above, p is known as the antecedent, and q as the consequent, of the conditional.

An antecedent of the Palace guards was the company known in the 19th century as the " Papalins ", former soldiers of the Papal States who, upon the destitution of the Papacy's temporal authority at the time of the Italian unification, were given a role in the Prince of Monaco's protection.

# Free relative clauses ( which have no antecedent, but themselves take the role of an argument in the main clause ) can be formed with who ( m ) or who ( m ) ever ( referring to people ), what or whatever ( referring to things ), whichever ( referring to people or things from a known set ).

* What Carroll calls the protasis of a conditional is now known as the antecedent, and similarly the apodosis is now called the consequent.

However, he is known to have had partial vazimba ancestry on his mother's side through her antecedent, King Andriamanelo ( 1540 – 1575 ), son of vazimba Queen Rafohy ( 1530 – 1540 ) and her Merina husband Manelo.

** Counterfactual conditional, or subjunctive conditional, indicates what would be the case if its antecedent were true

It should be noted that Thomas Bulfinch has an antecedent to the interaction of Medea and the daughters of Pelias.

The two are similar in many respects, with Mary Magdalene often being viewed as a Christian antecedent of the latter, while Tahirih in her own right could be described as the spiritual return of the Magdalene ; especially given their common, shared attributes of " knowledge, steadfastness, courage, virtue and will power ", in addition to their importance within the religious movements of Christianity and the Bahá ' í Faith as female leaders.

* Acute rheumatic fever can be differentiated from RA by a migratory pattern of joint involvement and evidence of antecedent streptococcal infection.

* Indeterminate number – when they has no definite antecedent, or can be interpreted as referring to either a singular or plural entity.

It was one of the trading posts on the Amber Road, and is thought to be the antecedent of the city of Elbląg ( Elbing ).

In this case A is called the hypothesis of the theorem ( note that " hypothesis " here is something very different from a conjecture ) and B the conclusion ( A and B can also be denoted the antecedent and consequent ).

Moreover, as Jan Brunvand pointed out antecedent legends including some of the motifs, themes and symbolism of these urtexts can readily be identified.

However, caution should be taken when drawing on antecedent genres because sometimes antecedent genres are capable of imposing powerful constraints ( Jamieson 414 ).

The intent of antecedent genres are to guide the rhetor toward a response consistent with situational demands, and if the situational demands are not the same as when the antecedent genre was created, the response to the situation might be inappropriate ( Jamieson 414 ).

Through three examples of discourse, the papal encyclical, the early State of the Union Address, and congressional replies, she demonstrates how traces of antecedent genres can be found within each.

Jamieson explains, by use of these three examples, that choices of antecedent genre may not always be appropriate to the present situation.

Jamieson urges one to be careful when drawing on the past to respond to the present, because of the consequences that may follow ones choice of antecedent genre.

They are true because a material conditional is defined to be true when the antecedent is false ( or the conclusion is true ).

The fourth edition of The Elements of Style ( 2000 ), published fifty-four years after the death of William Strunk Jr., omits his stylistic advice about masculine pronouns: " unless the antecedent is or must be feminine "; and, in its place, editor E. B.

This is to be contrasted with an indicative conditional, which indicates what is ( in fact ) the case if its antecedent is ( in fact ) true — for example, " if you drink this, it will make you well ".

An example of denying the antecedent would be:

The simultaneous quodlibet may be considered a historical antecedent to the modern-day musical mashup.

It is possible that an argument that denies the antecedent could be valid, if the argument instantiates some other valid form.

Romantic jealousy can be expressed in five antecedent factors:

He is often cited as the inventor of the concept of the remix, and so may be seen as a direct antecedent of much dance and electronic music production.