ALL meanings of material implication
ma·te·ri·al im·pli·ca·tion
M m - noun material implication equivalence (def 4a). 1
- noun material implication (logic) An implication as defined in classical propositional logic, leading to the truth of paradoxes of material implication such as , to be read as "any proposition whatsoever is a sufficient condition for a true proposition". 0
- noun material implication the truth-functional connective that forms a compound sentence from two given sentences and assigns the value false to it only when its antecedent is true and its consequent false, without consideration of relevance; loosely corresponds to the English if … then 0
- noun material implication a compound sentence formed with this connective 0