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Consequent vs Implication - What's the difference?

consequent | implication |

As nouns the difference between consequent and implication

is that consequent is the second term in various semantic or logical relationship where the first term is called the while implication is (uncountable) the act of implicating.

As an adjective consequent

is acting]] or [[operate|operating in a consistent or logical manner; coherent.

consequent

Adjective

(-)
  • Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
  • His retirement and consequent spare time enabled him to travel more.
  • Of or pertaining to consequences.
  • Coordinate terms

    * antecedent

    References

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (logic) The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q."
  • An event which follows another.
  • * Sir J. Davies
  • They were ill-governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment.
  • (math) The second term of a ratio, i.e. the term b'' in the ratio ''a:b , the other being the antecedent.
  • Holonyms

    * conditional * See

    Coordinate terms

    * antecedent

    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