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Translating ConditionalsSome more advanced issues:1. ‘only if ’2. necessary and sufficient conditions3. dealing with time

Translating ConditionalsSome more advanced issues1. ‘only if’

You qualify to be a DOCTOR only if you graduated from HIGH SCHOOL.

Translating ConditionalsSome more advanced issues:1. ‘only if’

You qualify to be a DOCTOR only if you graduated from HIGH SCHOOL.

H>D or D>H ?

Translating ConditionalsSome more advanced issues:1. ‘only if’

You qualify to be a DOCTOR only if you graduated from HIGH SCHOOL.

H>D

If you graduated from HIGH SCHOOL then you qualify to be a DOCTOR.

Translating ConditionalsSome more advanced issues:1. ‘only if’

You qualify to be a DOCTOR only if you graduated from HIGH SCHOOL.

H>D

If you graduated from HIGH SCHOOL then you qualify to be a DOCTOR.

TRUE

FALSE

Translating ConditionalsSome more advanced issues:1. ‘only if’

You qualify to be a DOCTOR only if you graduated from HIGH SCHOOL.

D>H

If you qualify to be a DOCTOR then you graduated from HIGH SCHOOL.

TRUE

TRUE

Translating ConditionalsSome more advanced issues:1. ‘only if’

You qualify to be a DOCTOR only if you graduated from HIGH SCHOOL.

D>H

If you qualify to be a DOCTOR then you graduated from HIGH SCHOOL.

TRUE

TRUE

Moral: ‘onlyif’ is a consequent indicator.

Translating ConditionalsSome more advanced issues:1. ‘only if’

Don’t confuse ‘only if’ with ‘if only’

If only I had LISTENED to my mother, I would be HAPPY today.

Translating ConditionalsSome more advanced issues:1. ‘only if’

Don’t confuse ‘only if’ with ‘if only’

If only I had LISTENED to my mother, I would be HAPPY today.

If I had LISTENED to my mother, I would be HAPPY today.

L>H

Translating ConditionalsSome more advanced issues:2. necessary and sufficient conditions

Necessary conditions are consequents.

Translating ConditionalsSome more advanced issues:2. necessary and sufficient conditions

Necessary conditions are consequents.

Graduating from HIGH SCHOOL is necessary for becoming a DOCTOR.

D>H

Translating ConditionalsSome more advanced issues:2. necessary and sufficient conditions

Sufficient conditions are antecedents.

RUNNING a red light is sufficient forgetting ARRESTED.

Translating ConditionalsSome more advanced issues:2. necessary and sufficient conditions

Sufficient conditions are antecedents.

RUNNING a red light is sufficient forgetting ARRESTED.

RUNNING a red light is enough.

R>A

Translating ConditionalsSome more advanced issues:3. Time

Don’t confuse ‘if then’ with ‘and then’.

Graduating from HIGH SCHOOL is necessary for becoming a DOCTOR.

Graduation “comes first”H>D

Translating ConditionalsSome more advanced issues:3. Time

Don’t confuse ‘if then’ with ‘and then’.

Graduating from HIGH SCHOOL is necessary for becoming a DOCTOR.

Graduation “comes first”H>D

D>H

WRONG

RIGHT

Antecedent Indicators

if provided thatshouldsufficient conditions

Consequent Indicators

then results inonly ifnecessary conditions

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