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implication
English
Etymology
From Middle French implication, from Latin implicationem (accusative of implicatio).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??mpl??ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
implication (countable and uncountable, plural implications)
- (uncountable) The act of implicating.
- (uncountable) The state of being implicated.
- (countable, usually in the plural) A possible effect or result of a decision or action.
- (countable, uncountable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
- 2011, Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
- But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.
- 2011, Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
- (countable, logic) The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".
- Logical consequence. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Derived terms
- material implication
- strict implication
Related terms
- implicate
- implicative
- implicature
- implicit
- implicitness
- imply
Translations
Further reading
- implication in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- implication in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Latin implic?ti?.
Pronunciation
Noun
implication f (plural implications)
- implication
Related terms
- impliquer
Further reading
- “implication” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
implication From the web:
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contraposition
English
Etymology
contra- +? position
Noun
contraposition (countable and uncountable, plural contrapositions)
- (countable, logic) The statement of the form "if not Q then not P", given the statement "if P then Q".
- Opposition; contrast.
- 2012, Erwin W. Straus, Maurice Natanson, Henri Ey, Psychiatry and Philosophy (page 76)
- The expression “Allon” indicates the unique character of this relationship: that of being together in contraposition. I belong to the Allon, and yet detach myself from it.
- 2012, Erwin W. Straus, Maurice Natanson, Henri Ey, Psychiatry and Philosophy (page 76)
Related terms
- contrapose
- contrapositive
- implication
Translations
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