Implication vs Transitivity - What's the difference?
implication | transitivity |
(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".
(grammar) The degree in which any one verb can take/govern objects.
(mathematics) The property of being transitive.
As nouns the difference between implication and transitivity
is that implication is (uncountable) the act of implicating while transitivity is (grammar) the degree in which any one verb can take/govern objects.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
* * ----transitivity
English
Noun
(transitivities)- There are 3 degrees of transitivity of any one verb: intransitive, monotransitive and ditransitive.
- The inference rule states the transitivity of implication.