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In modal logic, this formula means (roughly) that, in every possible world in which Bill Gates graduated in Medicine, Elvis never died. Since one can easily imagine a world where Bill Gates is a Medicine graduate and Elvis is dead, this formula is false. Hence, this formula seems a correct translation of the original sentence.
Although the strict conditional is much closer to being able to express natural language conditionals than the material conditional, it has its own problems with antecedents that are necessarily true or false.<ref>Roy A. Sorensen, ''A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the labyrinths of the mind'', Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 0195159039, [http://books.google.com/books?id=PB8I0kHeKy4C&pg=PA105 p. 105.]</ref> The following sentence, for example, is not correctly formalized by a strict conditional:
: If Bill Gates graduated in Medicine, then 2 + 2 = 4.
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