Conditional Claim

I thought there was a lot of information to take in from Chapter Six so I decided to do Conditional Claims.  In the text a conditional claim is defined as, “A claim is conditional if it can be rewritten as an “if…then…” claim that must have the same truth value” (pg. 121).  Conditional claims are often “If A, then B.”  A would be the antecedent and B would be the consequent.  An example of a condition claim:

If there is a lot of traffic, then I will be late for class.

The antecedent is “If there is a lot of traffic” and the consequent is “then I will be late for class.”  In a conditional claim the consequent depends on the statement of the antecedent.  People use conditional claims on a daily basis.  Almost everything we do is dependent upon something else and that is why conditional claims are used so often.