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.
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Entailment
/ɛnˈteɪl.mənt/
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linguistic implicationlogical consequencesemantic entailmentsemantic implication
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An argument hinges upon entailment whereas an if-then sentence hinges upon implication.
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That's not an extension at all. It's simply an obvious entailment of the original promise.
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In general, every language (and, hence, every language of every theory) has numerous entailment relations on it.
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