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Conditionals and types of conditional perfection

Journal of Pragmatics, 2008
In pragmatic literature, it is very well known that many conditional utterances invite conditional perfection as a non-monotonic inference or conversational implicature. In this paper, we argue that three types of conditional perfection have to be distinguished: two specific ones (only if p, q and only if not p, not q), and a more general one (if not p,
Ingrid Van Canegem-Ardijns, W. V. Belle
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Veridicality and the cause-effect relation in Russian esli- and raz-conditionals: experimenting with conditional perfection and logical entailment

Linguistics Vanguard, 2022
This paper experimentally investigates the role of veridicality and the cause-effect relation in the derivation of (a) conditional perfection and (b) logical entailment in Russian esli-conditionals and raz-conditionals.
Natalia Zevakhina
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Condition for Perfect Resonant Antireflection

MRS Proceedings, 2015
ABSTRACTReflection occurs at an air-material interface. The development of antireflection schemes, which aims to cancel such reflection, is important for a wide variety of applications including solar cells and photodetectors. Recently, it has been demonstrated that a periodic array of resonant subwavelength objects placed at an air-material interface ...
Ken Xingze Wang, Shanhui Fan
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The perfect challenging conditions

Early Years Educator, 2016
Are we putting up ceilings to children's learning? If so, how do we provide the right conditions that will support children in becoming self-regulating learners who will always seek to challenge themselves.
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Conditions Implying Closedness (Openness) and Perfectness of Maps

Acta Mathematica Hungarica, 1998
The paper gives a new characterization of closed and open maps into \(k\)-spaces and of closed and open maps into arbitrary spaces. These characterizations along with two lemmas, which concern compact subsets of \(S_2\)- and \(S_1\)-spaces and which are proven in the authors' previous paper [ibid. 72, No.
Garg, G. L., Goel, A.
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Conditions implying continuity and perfectness of maps

Acta Mathematica Hungarica, 1996
Since every continuous map is compact-preserving, the question naturally arises, under what additional conditions a compact-preserving map becomes continuous. In [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 11, 688-691 (1960; Zbl 0096.17002)] \textit{E. Halfar} investigated this problem for surjections between \(T_2\)-spaces.
Garg, G. L., Goel, A.
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Perfect Aggregation Conditions for Quadratic Programming Models

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1979
Sufficient conditions for the perfect aggregation of linear programming models were given by Day in 1963. Essentially the same set of conditions was shown to be necessary by Guccione and Oguchi in 1977.1 Here we extend these results to quadratic programming systems, a natural first step in the study of consolidation for more general nonlinear ...
N. Oguchi, A. Guccione
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Already Perfect: Language Users Access the Pragmatic Meanings of Conditionals First

Open Mind
Conditional statements often have two interpretations. For instance, the statement, “If you mow the lawn, you will receive $5”, might be understood to mean that mowing the lawn is just one possible way to earn $5 or, more strongly, that mowing the lawn
Ebru Evcen, David Barner
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Quality: From Past Perfect to Future Conditional

2016
The future of something is quite difficult to define or predict. As Mark Twain stated, “the art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future!” However, given the reduced value associated with forecasting the past, and the gains associated with estimating the future, it is worthwhile aiming to do so.
Sampaio, Paulo, Saraiva, Pedro
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