Abstract:This paper explores two questions concerning material conditional. The first half of the paper clarifies the relationship between implication and material conditional, emphasizing that implication is not merely the truth of material conditional; and then the alleged paradoxes of implication are analyzed in the light of this clarification. The latter half proposes that we should distinguish between the technical value of material conditional and its counterpart in ordinary discourse, and argues for the adequateness of explaining indicative singular conditional as material conditional, the latter being an explication (in Carnap's sense) of the former.