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What does entailment mean?

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  1. The act of entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed.
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As we saw in Chapter 7, we can appeal to entailment in order to define the relation between a superordinate term and its hyponyms.
It need imply no relationship of amplification or entailment from one clause to the next, although it can do so whenever it likes.
Everyday language, involving a system of logical entailment, has to fall back into a kind of stammering utterance or pure exclamation.
An argument hinges upon entailment whereas an if-then sentence hinges upon implication.
The rules of deduction are rules of entailment, not rules of inference.
Inheritance was by descent, but could be further restricted by entailment, which would restrict inheritance to male heirs only.

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