Conditional vs Implication - What's the difference?
conditional | implication |
(grammar) A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.
(grammar) The conditional mood.
(logic) A statement that one sentence is true if another is.
* L. H. Atwater
(computing, programming) An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.
(obsolete) A limitation.
Limited by a condition.
* Bishop Warburton
(logic) Stating that one sentence is true if another is.
* Whately
(grammar) Expressing a condition or supposition.
(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 conditional and implication
is that conditional is (grammar) a conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false while implication is (uncountable) the act of implicating.As an adjective conditional
is limited by a condition.conditional
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Alternative forms
* conditionall (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- "A implies B" is a conditional .
- Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals .
ifandwhileare conditionals in some programming languages.
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* (in logic) if-then statement; material conditionalMeronyms
* (in logic) antecedent * (in logic) consequentAdjective
(-)- I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.
- Every covenant of God with man may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.
- "A implies B" is a conditional statement.
- A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another.
- a conditional word, mode, or tense
Synonyms
* conditioned * relative * limited * (in logic) hypotheticalAntonyms
* absolute * categorical * unconditionalDerived terms
* conditional entropy * conditional probability * conditional proof * conditional sentenceimplication
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Noun
- 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.