different between implication vs implicatum

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)

1. (uncountable) The act of implicating.
2. (uncountable) The state of being implicated.
3. (countable, usually in the plural) A possible effect or result of a decision or action.

4. (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.

5. (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".
6. 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)

1. implication

Related terms

• impliquer

Further reading

• “implication” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Introduced by Paul Grice in 1975, from Latin.

Noun

implicatum (plural implicata)

1. (pragmatics) That which is implied.

Related terms

• implication
• implicature

Latin

Participle

implic?tum

1. nominative neuter singular of implic?tus
2. accusative masculine singular of implic?tus
3. accusative neuter singular of implic?tus
4. vocative neuter singular of implic?tus

Verb

implic?tum

1. accusative supine of implic?