Meaning of if-thenism | Babel Free

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The doctrine that all mathematical statements are conditional in form, meaning they can be expressed in the format "p implies q", (i.e. if p then q).

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Examples

“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.”

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