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Old 08-Aug-2005, 07:16
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Default Re: will x 2

It is a proverb; but maybe it's too unfamiliar to appear 'universally true'. Let me try some parallel examples:

1. If a person has died, he is no longer alive.
2. If a person has not arrived on time, we say he is 'late'.
3. If MS Excel has not been installed on your pc, you can't open an Excel spreadsheet.

It seems to me that these can only be zero conditionals.

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