Material implication may refer to:
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Material conditional
The material conditional (also known as material implication) is an operation commonly used in logic. When the conditional symbol \rightarrow is interpreted as material implication, a formula P \rightarrow Q is true unless P is true and Q is ...
, a logical connective
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Material implication (rule of inference)
In propositional logic, material implication is a valid rule of replacement that allows for a conditional statement to be replaced by a disjunction in which the antecedent is negated. The rule states that ''P implies Q'' is logically equiv ...
, a rule of replacement for some propositional logic
See also
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Implication (disambiguation)
Implication may refer to:
Logic
* Logical consequence (also entailment or logical implication), the relationship between statements that holds true when one logically "follows from" one or more others
* Material conditional (also material conseq ...
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Conditional statement (disambiguation) A conditional statement may refer to:
* A conditional formula in logic and mathematics, which can be interpreted as:
** Material conditional
** Strict conditional
** Variably strict conditional
** Relevance logic, Relevance conditional
* A conditio ...
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