material implication
Americannoun
noun
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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
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a compound sentence formed with this connective
Etymology
Origin of material implication
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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I closed my eyes and went over the propositional calculus, trying to visualize the truth tables for conjunction, disjunction, equivalence, and material implication.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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