c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies…, London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act INDUCTION, scene sly: ask marian hacket, the fat ale-wife of wincot, if she know me not: if she say i am not fourteen pence on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the lyingest knave in christendom.]:

There are four kinds of law: the eternal law, the natural law, the divine positive law and human positive law.

the glorification of the Angels , the agnition of the Shepeherds , the veneration of the wise men

Although the foregoing paragraphs are not intended to provide a knock-down argument against Siegel’s approach, and more generally against any analysis of bif-clauses as truth-conditionally relevant, it seems at least initially legitimate to treat this minoritary position with suspicion, and to investigate the shape for a theory of biscuit conditionals grounded on the widespread assumption of those clauses’ truth-conditional idleness.