implication
English
Etymology
From Middle French implication, from Latin implicationem (accusative of implicatio).Equivalent to implicate + -ion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
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.
- There are serious implications for the environment of such reforms.
- (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
possible effect or result of a decision or action
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that which is implied, but not expressed
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logical connective
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logical consequence
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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 implicātiō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.pli.ka.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Noun
implication f (plural implications)
- implication
Related terms
- impliquer
Further reading
- “implication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.