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material conditional

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English

Syllables
ma-te-ri-al -con-di-tion-al
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
8
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

material conditionals (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

entailment

Synonyms

conditional if-then statement horseshoe conditional material implication Philonian conditional

Antonyms

strict implication

Questions

What does material conditional mean?
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.

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