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material implication

American

noun

Logic.

equivalence.

material implication British

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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Etymology

Origin of material implication

First recorded in 1900–05

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