entailment
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- intailment (rare)
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entailment (countable and uncountable, plural entailments)
- 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.
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state of being entailed
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