Following J. L. Austin, it was said that if (if) were not causative or conditional in the Type II examples there, if you were hungry, arguing, inter alia, that this type of statement is not logically contraposable. However, this type of argument is no longer acceptable in the raw state, since it has become clear that the meaning of the statements may result from the interference of the general semantic potential of grammatical forms with the pragmatic circumstances of their jobs.