Question

Can someone explain to me why true conditional statements can have a false hypothesis?

Answer 1

a conditional statement that has a false hypothesis is trivially true

Answer 2

would you mind explaining more in depth why the hypothesis can be false?

Answer 3

it is because of how we define truth in conditional statements

Answer 4

In logic, a conditional statement ' if p then q ' is defined to be false only in the case when p is true and q is false. it is true otherwise

Answer 5

so lets make a truth table