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<p>the special case where  is empty, this reduces to: </p>

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: if and only if </p>

<p>This states A logically implies B if and only if the material conditional  is a theorem of the logic. </p>

<p>Many textbooks reserve the term logical consequence (or logical implication) for the <a href="page.php?w=Logical_consequence">semantic consequence</a> relation with the symbol . In which case the relation becomes </p>

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: if and only if </p>

<p>A logically implies B if and only if the material conditional  is a <a href="page.php?w=Tautology_%28logic%29">tautology</a>.</p><p>
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