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  2. Implicature - Wikipedia

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    An example of a conventional implicature is "Donovan is poor but happy", where the word "but" implicates a sense of contrast between being poor and being happy. [ 7 ] Later linguists introduced refined and different definitions of the term, leading to somewhat different ideas about which parts of the information conveyed by an utterance are ...

  3. Implied terms in English law - Wikipedia

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    Terms implied "in law" are confined to particular categories of contract, particularly employment contracts or contracts between landlords and tenants, as necessary incidents of the relationship. For instance, in every employment contract , there is an implied term of mutual trust and confidence , supporting the notion that workplace relations ...

  4. Implication - Wikipedia

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    Material conditional (also material implication), a logical connective and binary truth function typically interpreted as "If p, then q" Material implication (rule of inference), a logical rule of replacement; Implicational propositional calculus, a version of classical propositional calculus that uses only the material conditional connective

  5. Scalar implicature - Wikipedia

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    In pragmatics, scalar implicature, or quantity implicature, [1] is an implicature that attributes an implicit meaning beyond the explicit or literal meaning of an utterance, and which suggests that the utterer had a reason for not using a more informative or stronger term on the same scale.

  6. Necessity and sufficiency - Wikipedia

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    It may be the case that several sufficient conditions, when taken together, constitute a single necessary condition (i.e., individually sufficient and jointly necessary), as illustrated in example 5. Example 1 "John is a king" implies that John is male. So knowing that John is a king is sufficient to knowing that he is a male. Example 2

  7. Contractual terms in English law - Wikipedia

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    Contractual terms in English law is a topic which deals with four main issues. which terms are incorporated into the contract; how are the terms of the contract to be interpreted; whether terms are implied into the contract; what controls are placed on unfair terms

  8. Implicate - Wikipedia

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    Implicate can refer to: Implicature , what is suggested or implied with an utterance, even though it is not literally expressed Implicate order , a concept in quantum theory

  9. Implicate and explicate order - Wikipedia

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    In this example, the droplet becomes a thread, which in turn eventually becomes invisible. However, by rotating the substance in the reverse direction, the droplet can essentially reform. When it is invisible, according to Bohm, the order of the ink droplet as a pattern can be said to be implicate within the substance.