Implication vs Suggestion - What's the difference?
implication | suggestion |
(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".
(countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for )
(uncountable) The act of suggesting.
(countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
In uncountable terms the difference between implication and suggestion
is that implication is the state of being implicated while suggestion is the act of suggesting.In countable terms the difference between implication and suggestion
is that implication is an implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words while suggestion is something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for.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
* * ----suggestion
English
(wikipedia suggestion)Noun
- I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
- Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.
- Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
- He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.