if-thenism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The doctrine that all mathematical statements are conditional in form, meaning they can be expressed in the form "p implies q", (i.e. if p then q).
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "We now come to the difficulty that caused Russell himself to abandon 'if-thenism'."
- "In this chapter we shall consider two versions of if-thenism corresponding to two different ways of understanding conditional statements."
- "The final formalist position we shall consider, deductivism, or if-thenism as it is sometimes called, is suggested by earlier remarks on the game of pure logic."