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  2. Necessity and sufficiency - Wikipedia

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    One can also say S is a sufficient condition for N (refer again to the third column of the truth table immediately below). If the conditional statement is true, then if S is true, N must be true; whereas if the conditional statement is true and N is true, then S may be true or be false.

  3. Ceteris paribus - Wikipedia

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    The earliest case of the Latin phrase being used in the English language publications was in the 17th century by William Petty, who used the clause to condition his labour theory of value. Economist John Stuart Mill’s use of the Latin phrase had significant influences as he characterised economy through how it managed troubling factors.

  4. Causality - Wikipedia

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    Causality is an influence by which one event, process, state, or object (a cause) contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (an effect) where the cause is at least partly responsible for the effect, and the effect is at least partly dependent on the cause. [1]

  5. If and only if - Wikipedia

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    conclusion iff conditions. it uses sentences of the form: conclusion if conditions. to reason forwards from conditions to conclusions or backwards from conclusions to conditions. The database semantics is analogous to the legal principle expressio unius est exclusio alterius (the express mention of one thing excludes all others). Moreover, it ...

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    Keep chronic conditions under control. Wang says that managing chronic conditions that are associated with developing A-fib may help. “For example, treating diabetes and hypertension may reduce ...

  7. Correlation does not imply causation - Wikipedia

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    [3] That is the meaning intended by statisticians when they say causation is not certain. Indeed, p implies q has the technical meaning of the material conditional: if p then q symbolized as p → q. That is, "if circumstance p is true, then q follows." In that sense, it is always correct to say "Correlation does not imply causation."

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  9. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    Another is a legal term, referring to the indefinite postponing of a case, "until Elijah comes". Hindi - The common phrases are (1) सूरज पश्चिम से उगा है ("sun has risen from the west") and (2) बिन मौसम की बरसात ("when it rains when it's not the season to rain"). The second one is ...