Definitions for entailment
en·tail·ment

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. deduction, entailment, implicationnoun

   something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)

   "his resignation had political implications"

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1. entailmentnoun

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

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1. entailment

   Logical consequence (also entailment) is a fundamental concept in logic which describes the relationship between statements that hold true when one statement logically follows from one or more statements. A valid logical argument is one in which the conclusion is entailed by the premises, because the conclusion is the consequence of the premises. The philosophical analysis of logical consequence involves the questions: In what sense does a conclusion follow from its premises? and What does it mean for a conclusion to be a consequence of premises? All of philosophical logic is meant to provide accounts of the nature of logical consequence and the nature of logical truth.Logical consequence is necessary and formal, by way of examples that explain with formal proof and models of interpretation. A sentence is said to be a logical consequence of a set of sentences, for a given language, if and only if, using only logic (i.e., without regard to any personal interpretations of the sentences) the sentence must be true if every sentence in the set is true.Logicians make precise accounts of logical consequence regarding a given language L {\displaystyle {\mathcal {L}}} , either by constructing a deductive system for L {\displaystyle {\mathcal {L}}} or by formal intended semantics for language L {\displaystyle {\mathcal {L}}} . The Polish logician Alfred Tarski identified three features of an adequate characterization of entailment: (1) The logical consequence relation relies on the logical form of the sentences: (2) The relation is a priori, i.e., it can be determined with or without regard to empirical evidence (sense experience); and (3) The logical consequence relation has a modal component.

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1. entailment

   Entailment, in logic and linguistics, is a relationship between two statements where if the first statement is true, the second statement must also be true. In other words, the truth of one proposition logically necessitates or guarantees the truth of another. It's a key concept in logic, philosophy, linguistics, and artificial intelligence.

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1. Entailmentnoun

   the act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent

2. Entailmentnoun

   the condition of being entailed

3. Entailmentnoun

   a thing entailed

How to pronounce entailment?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of entailment in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of entailment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of entailment in a Sentence

1. Lois McMaster Bujold:

   You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=entailment
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Entailment
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entailment
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/entailment