Biconditional Relation

Broader Terms

  • BT Conditional Relation

Related terms

  • RT Proposition
Definition note

A biconditional relation is a relation between a consequent and a condition. The consequent is true or in force if and only if the condition is true, with the result that there is a conditional relation in both directions between the related propositions .

Example note

(English)

If and only if he goes, I go.

Note: This sequence also has the incidental meaning of If I go, he goes.

Bibliographic note
Page/s: 79
Source: Comrie 1986

Comrie, Bernard. 1986. "Conditionals: A typology." In Traugott 1986