Crossword clues for entailment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entailment \En*tail"ment\, n.
The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
The condition of being entailed.
-
A thing entailed.
Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force.
--R. L. Dugdale.
Wiktionary
n. The act of entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed.
WordNet
n. something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications" [syn: deduction, implication]
Wikipedia
In pragmatics ( linguistics), entailment is the relationship between two sentences where the truth of one (A) requires the truth of the other (B).
For example, the sentence (A) The president was assassinated. entails (B) The president is dead. Notice also that if (B) is false, then (A) must necessarily be false. To show entailment, we must show that (A) being true forces (B) to be true, or, equivalently, that (B) being false forces (A) to be false.
Entailment differs from implicature (in their definitions for pragmatics), where the truth of one (A) suggests the truth of the other (B), but does not require it. For example, the sentence (A) Mary had a baby and (B) got married implicates that (A) she had a baby before (B) the wedding, but this is cancellable by adding '' – not necessarily in that order.'' Entailments are not cancellable.
Entailment also differs from presupposition in that in presupposition, the truth of what one is presupposing is taken for granted. A simple test to differentiate presupposition from entailment is negation. For example, both The king of France is ill and The king of France is not ill presuppose that there is a king of France. However The president was not assassinated no longer entails The president is dead (nor its opposite, as the president could have died in another way). In this case, presupposition remains under negation, but entailment does not.
Usage examples of "entailment".
His oldest son Trewe would eventually come into total possession, by the rigid entailment laws of Thaery.
All titles, lands, revenues, wardships, and entailments attached to Remmington are yours, and will pass to your heir upon Kenric's death, in accordance with the rules of all other baronies of this land.
Its structures would long ago have been demolished to clear space for larger, more useful buildings, but for various entailments that prevented change.