Usually means: If antecedent false, implication true.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. material implication: Merriam-Webster
  2. material implication: Collins English Dictionary
  3. material implication: Wiktionary
  4. material implication: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. material implication: Dictionary.com
  6. Material implication (disambiguation), Material implication (rule of inference), Material implication: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. material implication: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. material implication: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. material implication: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. material implication: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (material implication)

noun:  (logic) An implication as defined in classical propositional logic, leading to the truth of paradoxes of material implication such as Q⊢P→Q, to be read as "any proposition whatsoever is a sufficient condition for a true proposition".

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