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//
Synonyms for "entailment" (6 found)
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10 translations across 7 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- implicatie noun (state of being entailed)
French
1 entries- implication noun (state of being entailed)
German
3 entries- Bedingtheit noun (state of being entailed)
- Erfordernis noun (state of being entailed)
- Implikation noun (state of being entailed)
Hungarian
1 entries- ősiség noun (state of being entailed)
Italian
1 entries- implicazione noun (state of being entailed)
Polish
2 entries- implikacja noun (state of being entailed)
- wynikanie noun (state of being entailed)
Russian
1 entries- импликация noun (state of being entailed)
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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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