Implication vs Indicative - What's the difference?
implication | indicative |
(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".
serving as a sign, indication or suggestion of something
(grammar) of, or relating to the indicative mood
(grammar) the indicative mood
As nouns the difference between implication and indicative
is that implication is the act of implicating while indicative is the indicative mood.As an adjective indicative is
serving as a sign, indication or suggestion of something.implication
English
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.
Derived terms
* material implication * strict implicationExternal links
* * ----indicative
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Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- He had pains indicative of a heart attack.