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Everything about Material conditional
Logical connective
The material conditional is a binary operation commonly used in logic. When the conditional symbol is interpreted as material implication, a formula is true unless is true and is false. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Material conditionalA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Material removal rate prediction in chemical mechanical planarization with conditional probabilistic autoencoder and stacking ensemble learningInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Les trois MousquetairesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Conditional Reasoning with Realistic MaterialCited 61 times
- Go sideways: List of rules of inferenceA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Admissible ruleA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A type of conditional statement used in formal logic and defined as true whenever its antecedent is false or its consequent is true, and false when its antecedent is true and its consequent is false.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Conditional Reasoning with Realistic Material
Dynamic conditional value-at-risk model for routing and scheduling of hazardous material transportation networks
An analysis of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) benefits using Alternating Conditional Expectation (ACE)
Continuous conditional generative adversarial networks for data-driven solutions of poroelasticity with heterogeneous material properties
A patching algorithm for conditional random fields in modeling material properties
Conditional Mitigation of Dental-Composite Material-Induced Cytotoxicity by Increasing the Cure Time
Conditional sentence and material implication
Pragmatics, Mental Models and One Paradox of the Material Conditional
🆕 Influential since 2022
Material removal rate prediction in chemical mechanical planarization with conditional probabilistic autoencoder and stacking ensemble learning
Predicting Human Postures for Manual Material Handling Tasks Using a Conditional Diffusion Model
Variational autoencoder guided conditional diffusion generative model for material microstructure reconstruction and inverse design
Using conditional normalizing flows to generate material placements in an optimized thermal composite
Williamson’s Abductive Case for the Material Conditional Account
📚 Books worth reading
Les trois MousquetairesAlexandre Dumas · 1844
Les MisérablesVictor Hugo · 1862
L’étrangerAlbert Camus · 1942
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson · 1875
Le Côté de GuermantesMarcel Proust · 1920
À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleursMarcel Proust · 1657
Cien años de soledadGabriel García Márquez · 1967
Отцы и детиIvan Sergeevich Turgenev · 1867
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