The Two Sides of Conditionals: Composite Antecedents and Consequents

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• What are the two components (ṭarafā) of a conditional?
• What is meant by “lā ḥukma fīhimā ḥīna kawnihimā ṭarafayn”?
• What becomes possible after extracting a conditional component?
• What does “If it rains, the ground will be wet” necessarily assert?
• When are a conditional’s two components structurally similar?
• What types are the components of “If this is human, it is animal”?
• If both sides of an outer connection are themselves if–then claims, which pattern is it?
• What is formed when an outer if–then connects two complete disjunctions?
• How should “If this is a number, it is even or odd” be classified?
• What is the antecedent type in “If it is even or odd, it is a number”?
• Why does the connected count distinguish categorical→connected from its reversal?
• Why is the converse “If animal, then human” not universally correct?
• How many same-type component patterns are there for outer connected conditionals?
• Why are there six mixed-component patterns for connections?
• Which expression yields the connected total of nine?
• Why does swapping the alternatives not create another disjunctive pattern here?
• In what sense are “even or odd” and “odd or even” the same pattern?
• How many component patterns does the source count for an outer disjunction?
• What is the outer form of “Either Zayd is present, or if Amr comes, Khalid departs”?
• How many outer components occur in “Either this sign is red or this number is even or odd”?
• Which homogeneous outer-disjunction pattern has two internal disjunctions?
• What is the first step in analyzing a nested conditional?
• Does having two categorical components force the outer whole to be categorical?
• What does correct structural classification not automatically establish?
• What does the source mean by the nine divisions of connected conditionals here?
• Why are categorical+connected and connected+categorical not counted separately in disjunctions?
• What is true of reversing “If A then B” to “If B then A”?
• The antecedent of a connected conditional must already be actually occurring.
• A complete connected conditional can occupy one component of an outer disjunction.
• The nine connected patterns refer to nine logical quantifiers.
• In the marginal note, reversing mixed alternatives in a disjunction does not create an additional kind.