An enthymematic clause implicit in the antecedent of some counterfactual conditionals suggesting that the antecedent is to be considered ‘all other things being equal’, i.e., ceteris paribus. For example, a conditional
can be more explicitly represented as
where —the ceteris paribus clause—lists one’s tacit assumptions going into the assertion, e.g., that the newspaper is not damp, that one is not attempting the act in a vacuum, etc.