Presupposition vs Implication - What's the difference?
presupposition | implication |
An assumption made beforehand; a preliminary conjecture or speculation.
* 2010 , Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass , Arrow 2011, p. 40:
The act of presupposing.
(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".
As nouns the difference between presupposition and implication
is that presupposition is presupposition while implication is (uncountable) the act of implicating.presupposition
English
Noun
(en noun)- He made one cardinal error in his presuppositions about the relation between language and perception, but in this he was far from alone.
Synonyms
* (assumption) assumption, conjectureimplication
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.