Full Idea
The main defects of the truth-functional account of conditionals don't show up in mathematics.
Gist of Idea
Truth-function problems don't show up in mathematics
Source
Dorothy Edgington (Conditionals (Stanf) [2006], 2.3)
Book Reference
'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.6
A Reaction
These problems are the paradoxes associated with the material conditional ⊃. Too often mathematical logic has been the tail that wagged the dog in modern philosophy.
Related Idea
Idea 9520 The paradoxes of material implication are P |- Q → P, and ¬P |- P → Q [Lemmon]