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Implication vs Imputation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between implication and imputation

is that implication is the act of implicating while imputation is the act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription.

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

    imputation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of imputing]] or [[charge, charging; attribution; ascription.
  • That which has been imputed or charged.
  • Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
  • (theology) A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ.
  • Opinion; intimation; hint.
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