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  2. Suggestive question - Wikipedia

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    A suggestive question is one that implies that a certain answer should be given in response, [1] [2] or falsely presents a presupposition in the question as accepted fact. [3] [4] Such a question distorts the memory thereby tricking the person into answering in a specific way that might or might not be true or consistent with their actual feelings, and can be deliberate or unintentional.

  3. Correlation does not imply causation - Wikipedia

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    In casual use, the word "implies" loosely means suggests, rather than requires.However, in logic, the technical use of the word "implies" means "is a sufficient condition for."

  4. Suggestion - Wikipedia

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    Suggestion is the psychological process by which a person guides their own or another person's desired thoughts, feelings, and behaviors by presenting stimuli that may elicit them as reflexes instead of relying on conscious [1] effort.

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    Some words, by their structure, can suggest extended forms that may turn out to be contentious (e.g. lesbian and transgender imply the longer words lesbianism and transgenderism, which are sometimes taken as offensive for seeming to imply a belief system or agenda). For additional guidance on -ist/-ism terms, see § Contentious labels, above.

  6. Implicature - Wikipedia

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    Rieber takes above sentence to mean "Donovan is poor and (I suggest this contrasts) happy" and calls it a tacit (i.e. silent, implied) performative. Blakemore claims that "but" does not convey a proposition, and does not work by encoding a concept at all, but by constraining the addressee's interpretation procedure. [ 72 ]

  7. Logical consequence - Wikipedia

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    The most widely prevailing view on how best to account for logical consequence is to appeal to formality. This is to say that whether statements follow from one another logically depends on the structure or logical form of the statements without regard to the contents of that form.

  8. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    This may imply "I'm going much farther south than you might think if I didn't stress the southerliness of my destination"; but such phrasing is also sometimes—and sometimes jokingly—used pleonastically when simply "south" would do; it depends upon the context, the intent of the speaker/writer, and ultimately even on the expectations of the ...

  9. Innuendo - Wikipedia

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    A male cat paying a "call" on a female cat, who then serves up kittens, insinuating that the "results" of children is predicated on a male "catcall". An innuendo is a hint, insinuation or intimation about a person or thing, especially of a denigrating or derogatory nature.