Home1778 Edition

CONDITIONAL

Volume 3 · 101 words · 1778 Edition

something not absolute, but subject to conditions.

CONDITIONAL Conjunctions, in grammar, are those which serve to make propositions conditional; as if, unless, provided, &c.

CONDITIONAL Propositions, in logic, such as consist of two parts connected together by a conditional particle.

CONDITIONAL Syllogism, a syllogism where the major is a conditional proposition. Thus,

If there is a God he ought to be worshipped. But there is a God; Therefore he ought to be worshipped.

The Arminian divines maintain that all the decrees of God relating to the salvation and damnation of man are truly conditional; and the Calvinists, that they are absolute.