Word Finder - implication

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The act of implicating.

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The state of being implicated.

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(usually in the plural) A possible effect or result of a decision or action.

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There are serious implications for the environment of such reforms.

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An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.

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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".

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Logical consequence.

The implication was as obvious as it was annoying.

She started to defend herself, but his implication was insulting.

The implication is always that some people are simply unable to do any job that a machine cannot do.

She ignored his implication that women should be punished like children.

By implication Caesar recognizes as a fourth division the province of Gallia Narbonensis.

Her implication that a lost love was the cause of a lost life was painful.

If the five ascetics to whom the words were addressed once admitted this implication, logic would drive them also to admit all that followed.

In four cases specifically, and in some others by implication, Bacon confesses that he had received bribes from suitors pendente lite.

The gloom and harshness of these Spanish mystics are absent from the tender, contemplative spirit of Francois de Sales (1567-1622); and in the quietism Fof Mme Guyon (1648-1717) and Miguel de Molinos (1627-1696) there is again a sufficient implication of mystical doctrine to rouse the suspicion of the ecclesiastical authorities.

But the word soon lost this special implication.

Ongoing investigations deal with the health implication of exposure to both the allergens and the fungal metabolites.

I also resent the implication that I would attempt to defraud you.

Brandon blushed at the implication.

Again the question was devoid of implication.

But Dean's denial of Cynthia's implication appeared well founded given her reaction to the discovery of the body in Norfolk.

The legal is the older group, and to it the name of casuist is often exclusively reserved, generally with the implication that its methods are too purely technical to commend themselves to mankind at large.

By his absence he had avoided implication in the troubles at home.

The implication of the phrase may go farther, suggesting that there is no connexion between the appearance of the variation and the use to which it may be put.

Perhaps most chilling is the implication on the financial capability of other conscientious objectors to stand up against corporate tyranny.

This has a significant time implication as the time that is spent at the market is time that can not be spent making soy candles.

We consecrate ourselves either in a ritual act, as of baptism or ordination, vows or monkish initiation; or, without any implication of particular ceremonies, a man is said to consecrate himself to good works or learning.

The details of the Path include several terms whose meaning and implication are by no means apparent at first sight.

It is in the Topics, further, that we clearly have a first treatment of syllogism as formal implication, with the suggestion that advance must be made to a view of its use for material implication from true and necessary principles.

The activity of vs is never so perfectly realized as to merge implication in intuition.

The advance from syllogism as formal implication is a notable one.

Enough has been said to justify the great place assigned to Aristotle in the history of logic. Without pressing metaphysical formulae in logic proper, he analysed formal;implica tion, grounded implication as a mode of knowledge Summary.

The cardinal idea was to force the aeroplanes (slightly elevated at their anterior margins) forwards, kite-fashion, by means of powerful vertical screw propellers driven at high speed - the greater the horizontal speed provided by the propellers, the greater, by implication, the lifting capacity of the aerodrome.

The ontological conclusion, moreover, is not to be regarded as something added by an external process; it is an immediate implication.

With weakness of the voluntary muscles went intermittent spasms which weakened the patient and ultimately led to death by implication of the respiratory muscles.

Conine, gelseminine and sparteine all exert a paralysing effect on the terminations of the motor nerves, to the implication of which the weakened gait and other symptoms are due.

Lisa ignored his crude implication and kept her attention on his mother.

She ignored his implication that they showered together.

The document lists atrophy as a possible surgical implication.

Environmentalists, the implication is, are much too well-educated and well-brought-up to fall into such low-class atavisms.

He added a new connective to classical logic, that of strict implication.

MaGIC (Matrix Generator for implication connectives) is a program which finds matrices for implication connectives for a wide range of propositional logics.

The implication is that Kyoto is good coin and if put into effect can actually prevent an ecological disaster.

The implication is that here is an enclosed farmstead that is occupied from the middle Iron Age through to the second century AD.

By implication, they were connected with the cult of a female fertility goddess whose worship was being forcefully suppressed.

Using this argument it is possible to take a materialist stance whilst rejecting the implication of materialist monism that our minds are purely reactive.

The implication has been that Bis has benefitted from being a cultural outsider, sitting on the sidelines lapping everything up.

But the converse implication that weak IPRs will produce benefit is by no means self-evident.

Some have supposed that certain chemical properties of which the Nile water was possessed acted as a glue or cement to cause the two layers to adhere; others, with more reason, that glutinous matter contained in the material itself was solved by the action of water, whether from the Nile or any other source; and others again read in Pliny's words an implication that a paste was actually used.

They are agreed, however, in the rejection, on the one hand, of of the subjectivist logic with its intrinsic implication that knowledge veils rather than reveals the real world, and, on the other hand, of the logic of the speculative construction with its pretension to " deduce," to determine, and finally at once to cancel and conserve any antithesis in its all-embracing dialectic. They agree, then, in a maintenance of the critical point of view, while all alike recognize the necessity of bringing the thoughtfunction in knowledge into more intimate relation with its " other " than Kant had done, by means of some formula of correlation or parallelism.

It has been suggested that the government would not expect one to exceed 5,000 people, and by implication most would be smaller.

The clear implication here is a reminder to be suspicious of the motives of those who advocate a 'one best method '.

There is an implication here that all trade in antiquities should be illegal.

The implication is that the young Irving drifted through the city unaware of the political turmoil of the times.

No nudity or actual sex is displayed, only the implication of the acts.

Absence of this reflex in the neonate is an ominous implication of underlying neurological damage.