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Proviso

An article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract, grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced, usually beginning with the word provided; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso.

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Condition 76% connected

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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Precondition 76% connected

A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.

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Stipulation 76% connected

The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.

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Provision 92% connected

The act of providing, or making previous preparation.

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Aristotelianism unknown · 78% connection

The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy.

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Formalism noun · 78% connection

The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.

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Logicism noun · 78% connection

(philosophy) the philosophical theory that all of mathematics can be derived from formal logic

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Mechanism noun · 78% connection

The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the…

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Peripateticism noun · 78% connection

The doctrines or philosophical system of the peripatetics. See Peripatetic, n., 2.

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Argument noun · 78% connection

Proof; evidence.

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Argumentation noun · 78% connection

The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of infe…

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Assumption noun · 78% connection

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.

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Cogency noun · 78% connection

The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.

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Conclusion noun · 78% connection

The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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Contradiction noun · 78% connection

An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration;…

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Contradiction in terms noun · 78% connection

(logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement ‘he is brave and he is not brave’ is a contradiction"

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Deduction noun · 78% connection

Act or process of deducing or inferring.

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Deductive reasoning noun · 78% connection

reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)

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Fallacy noun · 78% connection

Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.

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False belief noun · 78% connection

a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

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Implication noun · 78% connection

The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.

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Inference noun · 78% connection

The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

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After adjective · 78% connection

Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life.

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And conj. · 78% connection

A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, o…

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Antimetathesis noun · 78% connection

An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.

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Apodosis noun · 78% connection

The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clau…

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Article noun · 78% connection

A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treatin…

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Assize noun · 78% connection

An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public busi…

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Bayes' theorem noun · 78% connection

(statistics) a theorem describing how the conditional probability of a set of possible causes for a given observed event can be comput…

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Clause noun · 78% connection

A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.

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Conditional adjective · 78% connection

Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional pr…

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Contract noun · 78% connection

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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Convention verb · 78% connection

The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

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Coordinate clause noun · 78% connection

a clause in a complex sentence that is grammatically equivalent to the main clause and that performs the same grammatical function

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Covenant noun · 78% connection

A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement.

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Dependent adjective · 78% connection

Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.

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