entailment

English

Alternative forms

• intailment (rare)

Etymology

entail +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˈteɪl.mənt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

entailment (countable and uncountable, plural entailments)

1. The act of entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed.

   Entailment does not imply causation: if a set of premisses entail a conclusion, that does not mean (necessarily) that they cause that conclusion to be true.

   An argument hinges upon entailment whereas an if-then sentence hinges upon implication.

   • 2022 May 25, Michael C. Dorf, “Failure to Extend a Precedent Versus Failure to Apply It: A Comment on Shinn v. Martinez Ramirez”, in Dorf on Law:

     That's not an extension at all. It's simply an obvious entailment of the original promise.

Translations

state of being entailed

• Dutch: implicatie (nl) f
• French: implication (fr) f
• German: Bedingtheit f, Erfordernis (de) f, Implikation (de) f
• Hungarian: ősiség (hu) sg
• Russian: импликация (ru) f (implikacija)

See also

• material implication