logical implication

collocation in English

meaningsoflogicalandimplication

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logical
adjective
uk
/ˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
using ...
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implication
noun
uk
/ˌɪm.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɪm.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/
an occasion when you seem to suggest something without saying ...
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(Definition oflogicalandimplicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflogical implication

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Their formalisation implicitly assumes thatlogicalimplicationprovides a suitable axiomatisation of the notion of causality.
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After all, abductive reasoning is reasoning in a direction reverse tologicalimplication.
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Note that the notion of causality is expressed in the theory usinglogicalimplication.
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Alogicalimplicationof this was that a renewal of economic problems would necessitate setting post-material issues aside.
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Here, the body is alogicalimplication.
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It aims to capture the set-theoretic inclusion between the interpretation of nonstandard types in a suitable model (that is, thelogicalimplicationbetween properties).
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Anotherlogicalimplicationis that institutionalization of private property rights may not be a sufficient tool to initiate sustainable resource management.
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Deductive closure is the requirement that a proposition be accepted if it is alogicalimplicationof other accepted propositions.
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However, only the transitive nature oflogicalimplicationseems to meet the properties of causality; the re-exive and contrapositive properties of implication will not hold for all notions of causality.
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Due to the manifold uses oflogicalimplication, the theory provides no clear logical meaning for the various relationships, including causality, underlying the theory of diagnosis.
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Just as it is possible to have beliefs that are not closed underlogicalimplication, it is possible to have sets of beliefs and intentions that are not.
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In section 4 we describe the language of evaluation types and its semantics, we also give a complete axiomatization of thelogicalimplicationbetween evaluation types.
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Thelogicalimplicationis that the national government reaps the blame or credit for provincial fiscal performance, creating incentives for opposition governors to abandon fiscal responsibility.
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Does he follow thelogicalimplicationof that argument?
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That is thelogicalimplicationof the proposition that the level for the exclusion of small firms has been set too high.
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Surely thelogicalimplicationof that is that people are merely using public money as an excuse to get quick profits.
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