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Causality vs Implication - What's the difference?

causality | implication |

As nouns the difference between causality and implication

is that causality is the agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect while implication is (uncountable) the act of implicating.

causality

Noun

(causalities)
  • The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
  • References

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    implication

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of implicating.
  • (uncountable) The state of being implicated.
  • (countable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
  • * 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
  • But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.
  • (countable, logic) The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".
  • Derived terms

    * material implication * strict implication