If-thenism

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Noun
  1. 1
    The doctrine that all mathematical statements are conditional in form, meaning they can be expressed in the format "p implies q", (i.e. if p then q). uncountable

    "We now come to the difficulty that caused Russell himself to abandon 'if-thenism'."

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"We now come to the difficulty that caused Russell himself to abandon 'if-thenism'."

Etymology

From if + then + ism.

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