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Signification vs Implication - What's the difference?

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Signification is a related term of implication.


As nouns the difference between signification and implication

is that signification is the act of signifying, or something that is signified; significance while implication is (uncountable) the act of implicating.

signification

English

Noun

  • The act of signifying, or something that is signified; significance.
  • Evidence for the existence of something.
  • A meaning of a word.
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    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