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of possibility whenever the antecedent or protasis is true, the consequent or apodosis is true along with it.
This form of sentence, however, is sometimes used without my reference to any state.
This makes what logicians call a conditional proposition de inesse.
I will not stop to explain how the word inesse comes to have this meaning.
But if de inesse means regardless of what might be and considering only what actually is.
The conditional de inesse does not imply that there is any connexion between the state of things supposed in the antecedent and that which is conditionally asserted in the consequent, because any such connexion would be an affair of possibilities.
That is to say , there is no further connection then this, that the assertor of the proposition says he knows that the consequent is true unless the antecdent be false.
Consider, for example,