material implication

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noun Logic.

equivalence (def. 4a).

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Origin of material implication

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby material implication

materfamilias, materia alba, material, material cause, material culture, material implication, materialism, materialist, materialistic, materiality, materialize

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How to use material implication in a sentence

The CDA was passed not in the name of censorship but in the name of protecting children from stumbling across sexual material.
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The genetic material can grow quickly, but are typically riddled with errors or defects.
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Cold War fears could be manipulated through misleading art to attract readers to daunting material.
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Where the U.S. once depended on its own forces to determine who was military material, this time the Iraqis will decide.
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In any case, some enterprising independent producer might have enough material for a reality-show pilot.
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Eggs and nestlings were found lying on the bare soil at the inner ends of the burrows; no nesting material was found.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
I would ask you to imagine it translated into every language, a common material of understanding throughout all the world.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The sleeves of his doublet which protruded from his leather casing were of the same colour and material as his trunks.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
It makes out of the savage raw material which is our basal mental stuff, a citizen.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
She waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin

British Dictionary definitions for material implication

material implication

noun logic

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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