Indicative Conditional Statement

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An Indicative Conditional Statement is a conditional statement (of the form "if P, then Q") whose assertion could be true.



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    • Q: What is an indicative conditional statement? How does it relate to a counter-factual conditional statement?
    • A: An indicative conditional statement is a statement of the form "if P, then Q" where P is the antecedent and Q is the consequent, and it asserts that if the antecedent P is true, then the consequent Q must also be true. For example, "if it rains, the streets will be wet."

      A counterfactual conditional statement is a type of indicative conditional statement that refers to a situation that is contrary to fact. For example, "if it had rained yesterday, the streets would have been wet." The antecedent "it had rained yesterday" is false, but the statement makes an assertion about what would have happened if the antecedent had been true.

      In short, both indicative and counterfactual conditional statements make assertions about the relationship between two events, but indicative conditionals refer to real-world scenarios and counterfactual conditionals refer to hypothetical scenarios that are contrary to fact.

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