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Synonyms for material conditional

  • noun

Most common

if-then statement conditional material implication horseshoe conditional

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Noun

if-then statement, conditional, material implication, horseshoe conditional

Antonyms

strict implication

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Definitions

  1. n. 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.

    'A ⊃ B' represents a material conditional.

Related words

Is a kind of
logical connective

Example sentences

  • conditional The love was conditional; it hinged on my finances.

By length

11 letters
conditional4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (conditional4 = 4 syllables).