protasis

protasis englanniksi

1. The first part of a play, in which the setting and characters are introduced

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3. A clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence

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4. 2005 B. P. Bairan: An Introduction to Syllogistic Logic

Every conditional statement is made up of two component statements. The component statement that follows the ''"if"'' is called antecedent (or the ''"implicans"'' or — rarely — the "protasis"), and the component statement that follows the ''"then"'' is the ''"consequent"''(or the ''"implicate"'' or — rarely — the ''"apodosis"'').

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5. (l), dependent clause of a conditional sentence

6. an assertion, proposition

7. the beginning (non-gloss definition) first part of a play