Sunday, November 12, 2006

The Material Conditional

It is difficult for the material conditional to be false, a material conditional can only be false when both the antecedent is true and the consequent is false. The material conditional is the minimum that one means, and it is the minimum that one should interpret. It stems from the fact that there are no causal connections between 'if' and 'then' in the material conditional. Likewise, in this space, there are no connections between anything and anything. Yet, it is logical.