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CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together) , a stipulation, agreement. The term
birth
condition ," or an athlete
condition ," i.e. physically fit, having gone through the necessary course of preliminary training. In all these senses there is implicit the idea of limitation or restraint imposed with a view to the attainment of a particular end.(I) In Logic, the term
adjective " conditional " is applied to propositions in which the truth of the main statement is made to depend on the truth of another; these propositions are distinguished from categorical propositions, which simply state a fact, as being " composed of two categorical propositions united by a conjunction," e.g. if A is B, C is D. The second statement (the " consequent ") is restricted or qualified by the first (the " antecedent "). By some logicians these propositions are classified as (I) Hypothetical, and (2) Disjunctive, and their function
mood
mood
conditional argument is the dilemma (q.v.).1 The limiting or restrictive significance of " condition " has led to its use in metaphysical theory in contradistinction to the conception of absolute being, the aseitas of the Schoolmen. ' The terminology used above has not been adopted by all logicians. " Conditional " has been used as equivalent to " hypothetical " in the widest sense (including ' disjunctive ") ; or narrowed down to be synonymous with " conjunctive " (the condition being there more explicit), as a subdivision of " hypothetical." Thus all finite things exist in certain relations not only to all other things but also to thought; in other words, all finite existence is " conditioned." Hence Sir Wm. Hamilton speaks of the " philosophy of the unconditioned," i.e. of thought in distinction to things which are determined by thought in relation to other things. An analogous distinction is made (cf. H. W. B. Joseph, Introduction to Logic, pp. 38o fall.) between the so-called universal lawi of nature and conditional principles, which, though they are regarded as having the force of law, are yet dependent or derivative, i.e. cannot be treated as universal truths. Such principles hold good under present conditions, but other conditions might be imagined under which they would be invalid; they hold good only as corollaries from the laws
(2) In Law, condition in its general sense is a restraint annexed to a thing, so that by the non-performance the party to it shall receive prejudice and loss, and by the performance commodity or advantage. Conditions may be either: (1) condition in a deed or express condition, i.e. the condition being expressed in actual words; or (2) condition in law or implied condition, i.e. where, although no condition is actually expressed, the law implies a condition. The word is also used indifferently to mean either the event upon the happening of which some estate or obligation
obligation
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