implication
/ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃən/ · noun
Meaning
- The act of implicating.
- The state of being implicated.
- (usually in the plural) A possible effect or result of a decision or action.
- An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
- 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.
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