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Manifestation vs Implication - What's the difference?

manifestation | implication |

As nouns the difference between manifestation and implication

is that manifestation is the act or process of becoming manifest while implication is (uncountable) the act of implicating.

manifestation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of becoming manifest.
  • The last known manifestation of the ghost was over ten years ago.
  • The embodiment of an intangible, or variable thing.
  • This particular manifestation resembled a young girl crying.
  • (medical) The symptoms or observable conditions which are seen as a result of some disease.
  • A pattern or logo on a sheet of glass, as decoration and/or to prevent people from accidentally walking in to it.
  • 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