Making Sense of the Truth Table for Conditional Statements

Teaching Philosophy 31 (2):179-184 (2008)
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This essay provides an intuitive technique that illustrates why a conditional must be true when the antecedent is false and the consequent is either true or false. Other techniques for explaining the conditional’s truth table are unsatisfactory.

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