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Implication vs Explication - What's the difference?

implication | explication |

As nouns the difference between implication and explication

is that implication is the act of implicating while explication is the act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.

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

    Related terms

    * implicate * implicative * implicit * implicitness * imply

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    explication

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.
  • The sense given by an expositor.

    • Related terms

    * explicate * explicator * explicit