Revision as of 00:28, 15 January 2012 edit 202.124.72.116 (talk) Rearrange slightly: 2+2=4 and 2+2=5 are examples of statements which are necessarily true and false respectively ← Previous edit		Revision as of 00:30, 15 January 2012 edit undo 202.124.72.116 (talk) Correct error Next edit →
Line 19: ==Problems== 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~~consequents that are necessarily true (such as 2 + 2 = 4) or antecedents that are necessarily 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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