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entailment [Brit ɪnˈteɪlm(ə)nt, ɛnˈteɪlm(ə)nt, Am ɪnˈteɪlmənt, ɛnˈteɪlmənt] N

entailment PHILOS, MATH, LING

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Semantics is useful for investigating a logic (i.e. a derivation system) only if the semantical entailment relation reflects its syntactical counterpart, the "consequence" relation ("derivability"). en.wikipedia.org

In this respect, presupposition is distinguished from entailment and implicature. en.wikipedia.org

The plausibility of models is expressed by an ordering among models called a preference relation, hence the name preference entailment. en.wikipedia.org

The problem was, that an entailment in general view limits the power of the possessors of the entailed inheritance to dispose of it as they see fit. en.wikipedia.org

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