Final answer:
The statement is true because if the consequent of a conditional is a tautology, the conditional itself must be a tautology, as it cannot be false.
Step-by-step explanation:
The statement 'A conditional that has a tautology for its consequent is itself a tautology' is true. A tautology is a statement that is true in every possible situation. If the consequent of a conditional statement (the part that comes after 'if... then') is always true, then the entire conditional is always true, no matter what the antecedent (the part before 'then') is. This is because a conditional statement says that whenever the antecedent is true, the consequent must also be true. Since the consequent is always true in the case of a tautology, the conditional statement as a whole cannot be false.