Plural of conditional; statements or things that depend on certain conditions being true, often used in grammar and logic.
From 'conditional' (Medieval Latin 'conditionalis') meaning 'depending on circumstances.' In grammar, it refers to sentences that express conditions and consequences.
Every programming language has conditionals (if-then-else statements), and every human language has them too—it's one of the fundamental ways our brains think about the world: 'If X happens, then Y will happen.'
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