Concept
Material conditional
Overview
logical connective between two assertions, frequently symbolized by a (most often double) arrow to the right
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Philosophers who discussed Material conditional
- Józef Maria Bocheński
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Chrysippus
- Peter Abelard
- Walter Burley
- Ernst Mally
- Philo the Dialectician
- Hannes Leitgeb
- Ian Rumfitt
Related ideas
- Method of analytic tableaux
- Giuseppe Peano
- Interpretation (logic)
- Propositional variable
- Negation
- Intuitionistic logic
- Law of excluded middle
- Logical conjunction
- Relevance logic
- Modus ponens
- Mathematical logic
- Reflexive relation
- Frank Cameron Jackson
- Natural language
- Reductio ad absurdum
- Probability theory
- Principia Mathematica
- Polish notation
- Denotation
- Truth table
- Minimal logic
- Galileo Galilei
- Modal logic
- Paul Grice
Place in the tradition
Part of Ancient Greek philosophy.