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  2. Implicature - Wikipedia

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    In pragmatics, a subdiscipline of linguistics, an implicature is something the speaker suggests or implies with an utterance, even though it is not literally expressed.. Implicatures can aid in communicating more efficiently than by explicitly saying everything we want to communicat

  3. 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.

  4. Implied terms in English law - Wikipedia

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    Section 14(1) limits the implication of terms about quality or fitness to those terms actually contained within the Act. [ 4 ] Sale of Goods Act 1979, ss 12–15 and s 55 "may (subject to the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ) be negatived or varied by express agreement or by the course of dealing between the parties, or by such usage as binds ...

  5. 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

  6. Implication - Wikipedia

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    Strict conditional or strict implication, a connective of modal logic that expresses necessity; modus ponens, or implication elimination, a simple argument form and rule of inference summarized as "p implies q; p is asserted to be true, so therefore q must be true"

  7. Necessity and sufficiency - Wikipedia

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    In ordinary English (also natural language) "necessary" and "sufficient" indicate relations between conditions or states of affairs, not statements. For example, being a man is a necessary condition for being a brother, but it is not sufficient—while being a man sibling is a necessary and sufficient condition for being a brother.

  8. Implicate and explicate order - Wikipedia

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    Bohm emphasized the primary role of the implicate order's structure: [10] My attitude is that the mathematics of the quantum theory deals primarily with the structure of the implicate pre-space and with how an explicate order of space and time emerges from it, rather than with movements of physical entities, such as particles and fields. (This ...

  9. Material implication (rule of inference) - Wikipedia

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    In propositional logic, material implication [1] [2] is a valid rule of replacement that allows a conditional statement to be replaced by a disjunction in which the antecedent is negated. The rule states that P implies Q is logically equivalent to not- P {\displaystyle P} or Q {\displaystyle Q} and that either form can replace the other in ...