material implication

… [then] q” or “p [materially] implies q”) is to count as false when p is true and q is false and as true in all other cases; hence it has the same meaning as “either not-p or q” or as “not both p and not-q.” The symbol “⊃” is…

…logic, a broader relationship called material implication is employed, which is read “If A, then B,” and is denoted by A ⊃ B or A → B. The truth or falsity of the compound proposition A ⊃ B depends not on any relationship between the meanings of the propositions but…

…exactly the modern notion of material implication. In Philo’s view, unlike Diodorus’s, conditionals may change their truth value over time.

…it is necessary that p materially implies q. “John’s tie is scarlet,” for example, strictly implies “John’s tie is red,” because it is impossible for John’s tie to be scarlet without being red (or it is necessarily true that, if John’s tie is scarlet, it is red). In general, if…