In rhetoric, the distinction between the ‘tension-creating’ (protasis) and the ‘tensionrelaxing’ (apodosis), components of an antithetical idea or sentence. Structurally, protasis and apodosis can be in a relation of...

In linguistics, a protasis is the subordinate clause (the if-clause) in a conditional sentence. For example, in "if X, then Y", the protasis is "if X". The other clause ("then Y") is called the apodosis. In logic, the apodosis corresponds to the...