relevance conditional

English

Examples

If you want to, we could go to a movie
  The ability to go to a movie does not depend on "wanting", but the truth of the underlined clause is relevant to the main clause

Noun

relevance conditional (plural relevance conditionals)

  1. (logic, grammar) A subordinate clause usually introduced by if, that asserts the relevance of the clause to the main clause of the sentence, but not that it entails the main clause.
    • 2001, Renaat Declerck, ‎Susan Reed, Conditionals: A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis, page 425:
      To be more precise, the speaker of a relevance conditional assumes a mutual understanding on the parts of the speaker and the addressee[s] that the actualization of P is a sufficient condition for the relevance of the Q-utterance.

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