indicative conditional

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Would you please explain what it means.thanks

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The indicative conditional is the logical operation given by statements of the form "If A then B" in ordinary English (or similar natural languages). The indicative conditional, unlike the material conditional, does not have a stipulated definition. The philosophical literature on this operation is broad, and no clear consensus has been reached.

One problem is that the material conditional allows implications to be true even when the antecedent is irrelevant to the consequent. For example, it's commonly accepted that the sun is made of gas, on one hand, and that 3 is a prime number, on the other. The standard definition of implication allows us to conclude that, since the sun is made of gas, 3 is a prime number. This is arguably synonymous to the following: the sun's being made of gas makes 3 be a prime number. Many people intuitively think that this is false, because the sun and the number three simply have nothing to do with one another. Logicians have tried to address this concern by developing alternative logics

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