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/ˈpɹɒtəsɪs/ · noun
The first part of a play, in which the setting and characters are introduced..
It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.
In "I will be coming if this weather holds up", "if this weather holds up" is the protasis, and "I will be coming" is the apodosis.
2005 B. P. Bairan: An Introduction to Syllogistic Logic Every conditional statement is made up of two component statements. The component statement that follows the "if" is called antecedent (or the "implicans" or — rarely — the "protasis"), and the component statement that follows the "then" is the "consequent"(or the "implicate" or — rarely — the "apodosis").
Use protasis when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Protasis means The first part of a play, in which the setting and characters are introduced..
Common synonyms include antecedent, conditional, hypothesis, implicans.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.
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