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==Logic== While the [[material conditional]] operator used in [[classical logic]] is sometimes read aloud in the form of a conditional sentence, the intuitive interpretation of conditional statements in natural language does not always correspond to it. Thus, [[philosophical logic|philosophical logicians]] and [[formal semantics (linguistics)|formal semanticists]] have developed a wide variety of conditional logics that better match actual conditional language and conditional reasoning. They include the [[strict conditional]] and the [[variably strict conditional]].<ref name="Counterfactuals">{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Starr |first1=Will |editor-last1=Zalta |editor-first1=Edward N.|encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|title=Counterfactuals|year=2019 |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2019/entries/counterfactuals}}</ref><ref name="conditionallogic">{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Egré |first1=Paul |last2=Rott|first2=Hans |editor-last1=Zalta |editor-first1=Edward N.|encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|title=The Logic of Conditionals|year=2021 |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-conditionals/}}</ref><ref name="alonidekkerConditionals">{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Egré |first1=Paul | last2=Cozic |first2=Mikaël |editor-last1=Aloni |editor-first1=Maria|editor1-link=Maria Aloni |editor-last2=Dekker |editor-first2=Paul |encyclopedia=Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics |title=Conditionals |year=2016 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-02839-5 |pages=515}}</ref>
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