In this post I’ll be discussing Conditionals and their contradictories…
A conditional claim is one that may seem like a compound claim because the calim can be separated into two different sentences, however, you’ll know it’s a conditional claim if the two sentences need each other to make sense. One statement is conditional on completely are validating the latter.
For Example: I’ll take the remote from you if you keep changing it.
There is two premises and but the 0nly mean one thing, you can identify these Conditonal claims easily by identifying the word, “if”. In addition, there other trigger words such as “then”.
If you are not sure whether it is a Conditional Claim and it has no “If” or “then” practice writing the claim differently to see if it can form into an “if…then” statement easily. If you can, you’ve found a Conditional Claim!
Another Example:
“cook the food so we can eat”
Re-written: “If you cook the food, then we can eat.”
Yes- Conditional Claim
Hello,
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting about contrapositive. Epstein was not clear enough for me to understand. I had to do more research, so I browsed through students’ blogs to see if anything would help me. Your post helps me understand the topic more. I'll be writing more about it for my third post. The examples you used was the best tool for me to understand the definition of contrapositive. In addition, it showed me how it relates with the Concepts of Necessary Conditions and Sufficient Conditions. As your post approaches conditional claim, I like how you used the quote “cook the food so we can eat” because I just said that to my friend. =P