Full Idea
What the material conditional most significantly fails to capture is counterfactual reasoning.
Gist of Idea
A material conditional cannot capture counterfactual reasoning
Source
Michael Potter (The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930 [2020], 04 'Sem')
Book Reference
Potter,Michael: 'The Rise of Anaytic Philosophy 1879-1930' [Routledge 2020], p.34
A Reaction
The point is that counterfactuals say 'if P were the case (which it isn't), then Q'. But that means P is false, and in the material conditional everything follows from a falsehood. A reinterpretation of the conditional might embrace counterfactuals.