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—conditionable, adj./keuhn dish"euhn/, n.1. a particular mode of being of a person or thing; existing state; situation with respect to circumstances.2. state of health: He was reported to be in critical condition.3. fit or requisite state: to be out of condition; to be in no condition to run.4. social position: in a lowly condition.5. a restricting, limiting, or modifying circumstance: It can happen only under certain conditions.6. a circumstance indispensable to some result; prerequisite; that on which something else is contingent: conditions of acceptance.7. Usually, conditions. existing circumstances: poor living conditions.8. something demanded as an essential part of an agreement; provision; stipulation: He accepted on one condition.9. Law.a. a stipulation in an agreement or instrument transferring property that provides for a change consequent on the occurrence or nonoccurrence of a stated event.b. the event upon which this stipulation depends.10. Informal. an abnormal or diseased state of part of the body: heart condition; skin condition.11. U.S. Educ.a. a requirement imposed on a college student who fails to reach the prescribed standard in a course at the end of the regular period of instruction, permitting credit to be established by later performance.b. the course or subject to which the requirement is attached.12. Gram. protasis.13. Logic. the antecedent of a conditional proposition.14. on or upon condition that, with the promise or provision that; provided that; if: She accepted the position on condition that there would be opportunity for advancement.v.t.15. to put in a fit or proper state.16. to accustom or inure: to condition oneself to the cold.17. to air-condition.18. to form or be a condition of; determine, limit, or restrict as a condition.19. to subject to particular conditions or circumstances: Her studies conditioned her for her job.20. U.S. Educ. to impose a condition on (a student).21. to test (a commodity) to ascertain its condition.22. to make (something) a condition; stipulate.23. Psychol. to establish a conditioned response in (a subject).24. Textiles.a. to test (fibers or fabrics) for the presence of moisture or other foreign matter.b. to replace moisture lost from (fibers or fabrics) in manipulation or manufacture.v.i.25. to make conditions.[1275-1325; ME condicioun < AF; OF < L condicion- (s. of condicio) agreement, equiv. to con- CON- + dic- say (see DICTATE) + -ion- -ION; sp. with t by influence of LL or ML forms; cf. F condition]
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▪ logicin logic, a stipulation, or provision, that needs to be satisfied; also, something that must exist or be the case or happen in order for something else to do so (as in “the will to live is a condition for survival”).In logic, a sentence or proposition of the form “If A then B” [in symbols, A ⊃ B] is called a conditional (sentence or proposition). Similarly, “Whenever A then B” {in symbols, (x) [A(x) ⊃ B(x)]} may be called a general conditional. In such uses, “conditional” is a synonym for “hypothetical” and is opposed to “categorical.” Closely related in meaning are the common and useful expressions “sufficient condition” and “necessary condition.” If some instance of a property P is always accompanied by a corresponding instance of some other property Q, but not necessarily vice versa, then P is said to be a sufficient condition for Q and, equivalently, Q is said to be a necessary condition for P. Thus, a severed spinal column is a sufficient, but not a necessary, condition for death; while lack of consciousness is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for death. In any case in which P is both a necessary and a sufficient condition for Q, the latter is also a necessary and sufficient condition for the former, each being regularly accompanied by the other. The terminology is also applicable to logical or mathematical or other nontemporal properties; thus, it is proper to speak of “a necessary condition for the solution of an equation” or “a sufficient condition for the validity of a syllogism.” See also implication.In metaphysics, the above uses of the term condition have led to the contrast between “conditioned” and “absolute” being (or “dependent” versus “independent” being). Thus, all finite things exist in certain relations not only to all other things but possibly also to thought; i.e., all finite existence is “conditioned.” Hence, Sir William Hamilton, a 19th-century Scottish philosopher, spoke of the “philosophy of the unconditioned”; i.e., of thought in distinction to things that are determined by thought in relation to other things. An analogous distinction was made by H.W.B. Joseph, an Oxford logician, between the universal laws of nature and conditional principles, which, though regarded as having the force of law, are yet dependent or derivative; i.e., cannot be treated as universal truths. Such principles hold good under present conditions but may be invalid under others; they hold good only as corollaries from the laws of nature as they operate under existing conditions.* * *
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