Sentence examples for a material consequence from inspiring English sources

The conclusion follows, so to speak, "materially" from the premises, or is a "material" consequence of the premises, due to the fact that every German is European.

To mark this distinction, 14th century British authors would typically view the former as a material consequence and the latter as a formal consequence (Ashworth & Spade 1992).

The step in (4) from "Peter is Greg's mother's brother's son" to "Peter is my cousin" is a material consequence and not a formal one, because to make the step from the premise to the conclusion we need more than the structure or form of the claims involved: we need to understand their contents too.

Material verbs refer to tangible, observable happenings in which an individual 'does' something that has a material result or consequence (e.g., providing, jumping).

When dried, they were popularly traded.Doug McClellandVancouver, CanadaMay as well spend it nowSIR – You proffer a practical, material consequence of the belief of many evangelicals in a rapidly approaching end-time: "If it's all going to be consumed by fire...why worry about pollution or climate change?" ("It ain't necessarily so", January 1st).

In the limiting case, where every expression of the language is taken to be a logical constant, we get material consequence, but this is no more (and no less) the consequence relation than any of the others.

Even if all terms of the language are considered logical, the definition results in a characterization of a special concept of consequence, that of material consequence.

While they differed in particular in the various definitions given to the formal vs. material consequence distinction, they all agreed that necessary truth-preservation (TP) is a necessary condition for something to count as a (valid) consequence (Dutilh Novaes 2008).

But if the missing premise is a contingent truth (it has to be true with respect to the time indicated by the verbs of the consequence, otherwise the original material consequence does not hold), then the original material consequence holds only in some situations, namely the situations in which the contingent sentence happens to be true, and is thus an as-of-now consequence.

At first sight, Buridan's distinction between formal and material consequence seems very similar to, for example, Abelard's distinction between perfect and imperfect inferences.

This is noticeable not only in the definitions of formal (as opposed to material) consequence, but also in the very definitions of consequence which begin to mention mental acts, such as: "a consequence is a derivation (illatio) of the consequent from the antecedent" (Strode, quoted in Normore 1993, 449).