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...study of conditionals faces two interrelated problems: stating the conditions in which counterfactual conditionals are true and representing the conditional connection between the antecedent and the consequent. The difficulty of the first problem is illustrated by the following pair of counterfactual conditionals:If Los Angeles were in Massachusetts, it would not be on the Pacific...
...or as “not both p and not-q.” The symbol “⊃” is known as the (material) implication sign, the first argument as the antecedent, and the second as the consequent; q ⊃ p is known as the converse of p ⊃ q.Finally, p ≡ q (“p is [materially] equivalent to q” or...
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