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relevance conditionals

relevance conditionals is the plural of relevance conditional.

Meaning of relevance conditional

Noun

relevance conditional (plural relevance conditionals)

  1. A subordinate clause, usually introduced by if, that asserts the relevance of the clause to the main clause of the sentence, but not that it entails the main clause; a construction involving such a clause.
    • To be more precise, the speaker of a relevance conditional assumes a mutual understanding on the parts of the speaker and the addressee[s] that the actualization of P is a sufficient condition for the relevance of the Q-utterance.2001, Renaat Declerck, Susan Reed, Conditionals: A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis, page 425

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What is relevance conditionals the plural of?
Relevance conditionals is the plural of relevance conditional.

Words near relevance conditionals in the dictionary

  1. reletters
  2. reletting
  3. relettings
  4. relevance
  5. relevance conditional
  6. relevance conditionals
  7. relevance logic
  8. relevance logics
  9. relevances
  10. relevancies
  11. relevancy

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