Causality vs Implication - What's the difference?
causality | implication |
The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
(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)
(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".
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
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(wikipedia causality)Noun
(causalities)References
* *implication
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- 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.