Coincidence vs Conclusion - What's the difference?
coincidence | conclusion |
Of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place.
Of events, the appearance of a meaningful connection when there is none.
(analysis) A coincidence point.
A fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.
The end, finish, close or last part of something.
* Prescott
The outcome or result of a process or act.
A decision reached after careful thought.
* Shakespeare
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(logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
* Addison
(obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
* Francis Bacon
(legal) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
(legal) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
As nouns the difference between coincidence and conclusion
is that coincidence is while conclusion is .coincidence
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (in analysis) coincidence pointDerived terms
* coincidence point * coincidence theory * index of coincidence * Lefschetz coincidence theoremconclusion
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(wikipedia conclusion)Noun
(en noun)- A flourish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest.
- And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
- The board has come to the conclusion that the proposed takeover would not be in the interest of our shareholders.
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions' are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound ' conclusions . Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you geth
- He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion .
- We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating.
- (Wharton)