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  2. Implied-in-fact contract - Wikipedia

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    An implied-in-fact contract is a form of an implied contract formed by non-verbal conduct, rather than by explicit words. The United States Supreme Court has defined "an agreement 'implied in fact'" as "founded upon a meeting of minds, which, although not embodied in an express contract, is inferred, as a fact, from conduct of the parties showing, in the light of the surrounding circumstances ...

  3. Unenumerated rights - Wikipedia

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    Unenumerated rights are legal rights inferred from other rights that are implied by existing laws, such as in written constitutions, but are not themselves expressly stated or "enumerated" in law. Alternative terms are implied rights, natural rights, background rights, and fundamental rights. [1]

  4. Inference - Wikipedia

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    In addition, you put your best and brightest in places where they can do the most good—such as on high-value weapons programs. It is an anomaly for a small city to field such a good team. The anomaly indirectly described a condition by which the observer inferred a new meaningful pattern—that the small city was no longer small.

  5. Logical reasoning - Wikipedia

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    The proposition inferred from them is called the conclusion. [18] [19] For example, in the argument "all puppies are dogs; all dogs are animals; therefore all puppies are animals", the propositions "all puppies are dogs" and "all dogs are animals" act as premises while the proposition "all puppies are animals" is the conclusion. [21] [22]

  6. Logical consequence - Wikipedia

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    Logical consequence (also entailment or implication) is a fundamental concept in logic which describes the relationship between statements that hold true when one statement logically follows from one or more statements.

  7. Implied authority - Wikipedia

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    Section 187 adds that "An authority is said to be express when it is given by words, spoken or written. An authority is said to be implied when it is to be inferred from the circumstances of the case; and things spoken or written or the ordinary course of dealing, may be accounted circumstances of the case".

  8. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 21

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    What one person implies is not necessarily what another person infers; what is inferred is not necessarily what was implied. Bus stop 22:40, 21 February 2011 (UTC) Right, usually when one intends to imply something, s/he hopes the listener will infer appropriately, but this is often a source of mis-communication.

  9. Deductive reasoning - Wikipedia

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    Deductive reasoning is the psychological process of drawing deductive inferences.An inference is a set of premises together with a conclusion. This psychological process starts from the premises and reasons to a conclusion based on and supported by these premises.