Entailment

Entailment does not imply causation: if a set of premisses entail a conclusion, that does not mean (necessarily) that they cause that conclusion to be true.

An argument hinges upon entailment whereas an if-then sentence hinges upon implication.

That's not an extension at all. It's simply an obvious entailment of the original promise.

In general, every language (and, hence, every language of every theory) has numerous entailment relations on it.

The barriers that this book is about —barriers to entailment — concern the relation of logical consequence ( or its lack. )

That no entailment of lands shall continue to entail Robinson etc. the same, in any case whatever, longer than the life of the person to whom the same hath been, or shall be, first devised, by such entailment.

On the other hand, the "perpetual entailment of estates" was a favorite of the common law,—supporting, as it did, the right of primogeniture, and growing out of the feudal system.

Even in the nineteenth century, and especially in comparison with England, commentators repeatedly highlighted how important the abolition of entailment and primogeniture was to preventing the dynastic concentration of wealth.

And notwithstanding this turning clause was put in, yet it was afterwards construed to be a will giving an entailment of the real property to the old man's grandchildren, which was not the case.

Her answer cannily goes to the mercenary heart of the substance of Wortley's letter: the failure of the marriage negotiation because of his refusual to pay the price of placing an entailment on his estate .