conditional reasoning n. Quick reference
A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... reasoning n. A form of logical reasoning based on conditional statements or conditional propositions having the form If p, then q , in which p is the antecedent and q is the consequent . An example is If this substance is glass, then a diamond will scratch it . The conditional statement is logically equivalent to Not- ( p and not-q ), and it is true, by definition, if and only if p and q are both true or p is false (whether q is true or false). A subjunctive conditional is a conditional statement or proposition ( 1 ) in...
conditional reasoning
Qur'an and Woman Reference library
Amina Wadud-Muhsin
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...mean that they were chosen to receive prophets and the revelations. 35. [Obedient.—Editor] 36. This is the ba al-sababiyya known in Arabic as the bi for a reason or purpose. It establishes a conditional relationship between two parts of a sentence or clause. The first part is conditional upon, and cannot be attributed without, the second part. 38. Which I will discuss in detail below. 39. Al-Hibri , “A Study of Islamic Herstory,” pp. 217–218. 40. I have translated...
The Wisdom of Solomon Reference library
William Horbury and William Horbury
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...mentioned, than ‘death’ (text), but the diabolical power of death ( 2:24; Heb 2:14 ) is in view in either case. This Isaianic ‘covenant’ became in medieval thought the pact with the devil in witchcraft, as when Dr Faustus made Lucifer ‘a deed of gift of body and of soul’, conditionally on ‘all covenants and articles between us both’ (Marlowe, Doctor Faustus , ll. 89–91). The covenanters deservedly belong to the ‘portion’ ( meris ) of Hades, death, or the devil ( v. 16; 2:24 RV; NRSV ‘company’), implicitly opposed here to ‘the Lord's portion’ ( Deut 32:9, 2...
Introduction to the Pentateuch Reference library
G. I. Davies
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...we suppose them to be. 21. The description ‘legend’ was arrived at by Gunkel by a deceptively simple process of reasoning: the stories originated before the Israelites organized themselves politically into a state, therefore they are oral compositions, therefore they are legends ( Sagen ), and their purpose is to convey experiences of human existence which are not to be equated with particular historical events. The attraction of this line of reasoning is that at its end there is something that certainly needs to be said if we are to do justice to the literary...
Job Reference library
James L. Crenshaw and James L. Crenshaw
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...number or it may indicate Job's impression that his friends have talked excessively ( cf. Gen 31:7 and Num 14:22 for references to a full quota of tests). The verb kālam (to humiliate, insult) indicates that Job thinks of his friends' words as insulting. vv. 4–6 , the conditional sentence does not implicate Job for sins of some kind; he reasons that even if such were true, the consequences would settle on him. Instead, Job argues, Eloah has perverted things and imputed the guilt to him. The image of God as a fowler hurling a net to capture prey occurs...
Numbers Reference library
Terence E. Fretheim and Terence E. Fretheim
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...is used with human beings) related to service (nazirite, 6:2 ) or in exchange for the (potential) fulfilment of a request, often in crisis ( see 21:2 ; Jacob in gen 28:20–2 ; Jephthah in judg 11:30–1 ; Hannah in 1 sam 1:11 ). Three categories of women whose vows are conditional are presented: those who are still in their father's house and under his authority ( vv. 3–5 ); women who are under vows (even rash ones, see Lev 5:4 ) at the time they are married, vows not annulled by the father ( vv. 6–8 ); women who are married and under their husband's...
1 Corinthians Reference library
John Barclay and John Barclay
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...three sections ( vv. 1–3, 4–7, 8–13 ): the first and third match one another in their comparative evaluations of love, while the central section consists of thirteen simple verbs, arranged in order positive–negative–positive. The first section ( vv. 1–3 ) is made up of three conditional clauses, each complemented by a devastating statement of worthlessness. The first imagines the possession of all the possible gifts of speech which were so highly prized in Corinth, ‘tongues of angels’ perhaps describing the imagined content of ‘speaking in tongues’. Without...
Luke Reference library
Eric Franklin and Eric Franklin
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...‘sins’ breaks the parallelism of our forgiving of ‘debts’. Matthew has ‘debts’ in both parts of the petition and, because Jesus elsewhere talks of sin as ‘debts’ ( 7:41 ), it is likely that Luke has rephrased it here to make it more intelligible to his non-Jewish readers. The conditionality of the clause seems to owe its severity to Jesus himself and would fit the emphasis of the evangelist's version of Jesus' foundation sermon ( 6:20–49 ). Luke's version of the prayer ends with the petition, ‘Do not bring us to the time of trial’ ( peirasmos ). This translation...
Matthew Reference library
Dale C. Allison, Jr. and Dale C. Allison, Jr.
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...first murder in the HB) to 2 Chr 24 (the last murder in the HB). Ch. 23 concludes by referring to two events that are closely related in the next chapter, the destruction of Jerusalem ( v. 38 ) and the Parousia of the Son of Man ( v. 39 ). ‘Until you say’ probably signals a conditional sentence. The meaning is that when his people bless him the Messiah will come. While Israel's redemption may be, on the basis of the OT and 19:28 , a firm hope, its date is contingent upon Israel's acceptance of Jesus. vv. 37–9 temper what has gone before. Without these...
subjunctive conditional
deontic reasoning
conditional probability
affirming the antecedent
affirming the consequent
denying the antecedent
denying the consequent
structured programming
predicate calculus
