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material implication
material implication
noun
- the truth-functional connective that forms a compound sentence from two given sentences and assigns the value false to it only when its antecedent is true and its consequent false, without consideration of relevance; loosely corresponds to the English if … then
- a compound sentence formed with this connective
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of material implication1
First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences
Examples have not been reviewed.
I closed my eyes and went over the propositional calculus, trying to visualize the truth tables for conjunction, disjunction, equivalence, and material implication.
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