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Meaning of "material implication" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MATERIAL IMPLICATION

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MATERIAL IMPLICATION

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Material implication is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MATERIAL IMPLICATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Material implication

Material implication may refer to: ▪ Material conditional, a logical connective ▪ Material implication, a rule of replacement for some propositional logic...

Definition of material implication in the English dictionary

The definition of material implication in the dictionary is 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. Other definition of material implication is a compound sentence formed with this connective.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MATERIAL IMPLICATION

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WORDS THAT END LIKE MATERIAL IMPLICATION

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Synonyms and antonyms of material implication in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «material implication» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MATERIAL IMPLICATION

Find out the translation of material implication to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of material implication from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «material implication» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

实质蕴涵
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

implicación material
570 millions of speakers

English

material implication
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सामग्री निहितार्थ
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

ضمنا المادي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

материальная импликация
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

implicação material
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উপাদান প্রভাব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´implication matérielle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Implikasi bahan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

materiale Implikation
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

実質的含意
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

재료 의미
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Implikasi materi
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

tài liệu ý nghĩa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொருள் உட்குறிப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भौतिक परिणाम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Maddi ima
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

implicazione materiale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

materiał implikacja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

матеріальна імплікація
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

materiale de implicare
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

υλικό επιπτώσεις
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

materiaal implikasie
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

material implikation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

materialet implikasjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of material implication

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MATERIAL IMPLICATION»

The term «material implication» is used very little and occupies the 175.837 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MATERIAL IMPLICATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «material implication» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «material implication» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about material implication

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MATERIAL IMPLICATION»

Discover the use of material implication in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to material implication and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Development of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy
Material implication, he said, is an indefinable. But — and this is the third point — — if Russell had been quite clear on this he would not have been so inclined (as he was in Principles but not in Principia) to refer to material implication as an ...
Jager, Ronald, 2014
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Semantics::
The meaning of the connective of material implication is defined (in a way that is often regarded as paradoxical) as follows: when the antecedent is true and the consequent is false, the implication is false; in all other cases the implication is ...
John Lyons, 1977
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Principles of mathematics
How far formal implication is definable in terms of implication simply, or material implication as it may be called, is a difficult question, which will be discussed in Chapter Hi. What the difference is between the two, an illustration will explain.
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Boolean Algebra and Its Applications
This restriction will, of course, limit the rigor of our treatment, but it is felt that this is excusable in an introductory text. 3-5 Material implIcation. Our treatment of Boolean algebra has emphasixed the use of three operations, (+) and (•), which are ...
J. Eldon Whitesitt, 1995
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Logic: Inquiry, Argument, and Order
Figure 6.3 Truth Table for Material Implication Using Inclusive Disjunction The inclusive disjunction fails to hold only when neither of the disjuncts is taken. If you consider the table for material implication again, it is clear that the expression, ...
Scott L. Pratt, 2010
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Logic With Added Reasoning
and a truth table analysis of it called material implication. In particular we will discuss how a truth table analysis with no causal, temporal or probabilistic import can analyze a connective that is apparently loaded with such implications.
Michael Gabbay, 2002
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Logical Philosophy: A Compendium
Material and strict implication exhibit significant formal differences in behavior. This can be made manifest as follows. In the case of material implication, which refers to inactualities of truth, the hypothetical “if P then Q” means “(P and not Q) are ...
Avi Sion, 2013
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Informal Logic: Issues and Techniques
The problem cases for the propositional calculus arise from the definition of "if p then q" as material implication. One well-known kind of case involves question- begging arguments, which qualify as valid because the pattern "(p & q) D p" is ...
Wayne Grennan, 1997
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If P, Then Q: Conditionals and the Foundations of Reasoning
'implication' from “formal implication'. it is called 'material implication'. Thus ' material implication' is simply 'implication' as here defined" 'Material implication” is a phrase still in common use. In the next chapter, I will join Quine in deploring the ...
David Sanford, 2011
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A Hundred Years of English Philosophy
(a) Material Implication. Besides the relation between part and whole, in the first months of 1900 he accepted that there is another relation, that of implication, which holds between propositions only, not between individuals. Soon Russell found ...
N. Milkov, 2003

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MATERIAL IMPLICATION»

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A third of finalists in America's oldest science competition are of …
Raghuvanshi, Anika, Portland, Orlando; Logic Synthesis and a Generalised Notation for Memristor-Realizsd Material Implication Gates. Tandon ... «Firstpost, Jan 15»
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Jesuit High and Catlin Gabel students will represent Oregon at Intel …
... Raghuvanshi was selected for her project: Logic Synthesis and a Generalized Notation for Memristor-Realized Material Implication Gates. «OregonLive.com, Jan 15»
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Morrisons' outlook 'truly awful': City analyst
“The magnitude of price investment [was] likely to have material implication for our sector-wide forecasts going forward,” said Black and Shirley. «FoodManufacture.co.uk, Mar 14»
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Minera Gold Ltd.: Ground Magnetic Survey and 3D Model Increases …
A further material implication of this geophysical study is that the hydrothermal system, due to its intrusive phase, is much wider than previously ... «Marketwired, Jan 14»
5
Supreme People Court's interpretation on employment law issues
This rule is of material implication in mergers and acquisition transaction where the acquiring company agrees to take over the employees of ... «Lexology, Mar 13»
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Nanotechnology's road to artificial brains
... instead charge that has been used in conventional circuits ("'Memristive' switches enable 'stateful' logic operations via material implication"). «Nanowerk LLC, Apr 10»
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'Memristive' switches enable 'stateful' logic operations via material
(Although material implication is seldom discussed within the electrical engineering and computing communities, it is in common use among ... «Nature.com, Apr 10»
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Memristors combine memory, logics set in one device
As the authors describe it, for Boolean states p and q, a material implication is "p implies q"—if p is true, then q must also be. The work shows ... «Ars Technica, Apr 10»

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