implication

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noun

A subtle quality underlying or felt to underlie a situation, action, or person: hint, inkling, suspicion, undercurrent, undertone. See show/hide, suggest.

Definition: suggestion
Antonyms: explicit statement

Informally, the implications of a proposition p (or set of propositions S) are those propositions which one would accept in the schema ‘if p then…’, (or, if each of S, then …). These will include things accepted only because of common sense, things which are common knowledge or presupposed in some context, or a sense of what regularly happens (‘if we go to London we will get caught in the crowds’). Logic tries to codify what is implied by sets of propositions in the more rigorous sense of what cannot possibly be false if they are each true. See also implicature.

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• Logic - implication: relation between two propositions whereby one may be logically deduced from the other
• Rhetoric and Figures of Speech - implication: connotation
• Reason and Rationale - implication: something implied or suggested as naturally inferred or understood

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Implication may refer to:

In logic:

• Logical implication, entailment, or consequence, a relation between statements
• Material implication, or conditional implication, a binary truth function

In linguistics, specifically in pragmatics:

• Implicature
• Entailment (pragmatics)

Other uses:

• In medical diagnosis, the scientific method, and forensics, a hypothetical cause is implicated or indicated when a reason for the condition can be found, given that cause.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - inddragning, indblanding, implikation, underforståelse, stiltiende slutning, konsekvens, slutning

Nederlands (Dutch)
implicatie, verwikkeling

Français (French)
n. - implication, insinuation

Deutsch (German)
n. - Implikation, Verwicklung, Folge, Begleiterscheinung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ενοχοποίηση, επίπτωση, συνέπεια, σημασία, υπαινιγμός, υπονοούμενο

Italiano (Italian)
implicazione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - implicação (f)

Русский (Russian)
впутывание, скрытый смысл, причастность

Español (Spanish)
n. - implicación, complicidad, repercusión, consecuencia

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - inblandning, innebörd, konsekvens, insinuation

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
含意, 暗示

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 含意, 暗示

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 내포, 관계

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 連坐, 言外の意味, 含蓄, 暗示

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) معنى متضمن‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮סיבוך, הסתבכות, משמעות, רמז, כוונה, השתמעות‬

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