English Explanatory Dictionary

material conditional

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of conditional statement used in formal logic and defined as true whenever its antecedent is false or its consequent is true, and false when its antecedent is true and its consequent is false.

Word forms

material conditional material conditionals

Synonyms

conditional if-then statement horseshoe conditional material implication Philonian conditional

Antonyms

strict implication

Related words

entailment
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