entailment

How To Use entailment In A Sentence

• To be sure, every linguist, when pursuing a semantic investigation, will collect information about collocations and will elicit judgements about entailments, antonyms, and other meaning relations.
• Equally, if you run too far the other way you end up arguing for ungrounded cultural forces shaping up individual psychology, which is an equally deterministic position and both views have socio-political entailments.
• Individuals cannot choose their physical and cultural heritage, but they can choose to deny or moderate the structural entailments of this heritage.
• As with all such matters of suggestions rather than entailment, the surrounding discourse determines whether the suggestion holds or not. Jealousy and Envy « Motivated Grammar
• The rules of deduction are rules of entailment, not rules of inference.
• The connections are of logical entailment rather than contingent association.
• It was almost a relief when everyone started reminding each other about the ancient and baffling phenomenon of entailment, the insane property law that enabled a complete stranger (well, a third cousin, once removed, in Manchester) to inherit all your money and earldom and acres of rolling parkland. Downton Abbey; Whites; DCI Banks; Inspector George Gently; Horizon
• Paradigmatic relations include relations such as synonymy, hyponymy, opposites (of various kinds), and entailment.
• When you say that, it has a bunch of entailments.
• Then we shift back to the safe indication account, and go along with skeptics when they appeal to the principle of entailment, which is sustained by the safe indication account, and conclude that ordinary knowledge claims are false. The Epistemic Closure Principle