| Sentences of this form are called conditionals, and will concern us a good deal in the next chapter. |
| There are a variety of conditionals in English, each type having a distinct meaning. |
| Ways of handling compounds of conditionals have been proposed on the basis of these semantic values. |
| Note that the inductive argument the agents run through depends upon the conclusions they each draw from several counterfactual conditionals. |
| Jackson came to realise, however, that there are assertable conditionals which one would not continue to believe if one learned the antecedent. |
| The antecedents and consequents of conditionals must be complete sentences. |
