Meaning

The act of logically entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of logically entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed.
2. The act of setting up an entail to restrict inheritance.
3. (nonstandard) An entail.

Example Sentences

Entailment does not imply causation: if a set of premisses entail a conclusion, that does not mean (necessarily) that they cause that conclusion to be true.

An argument hinges upon entailment whereas an if-then sentence hinges upon implication.

That's not an extension at all. It's simply an obvious entailment of the original promise.

In general, every language (and, hence, every language of every theory) has numerous entailment relations on it.

The barriers that this book is about —barriers to entailment — concern the relation of logical consequence ( or its lack. )

That no entailment of lands shall continue to entail Robinson etc. the same, in any case whatever, longer than the life of the person to whom the same hath been, or shall be, first devised, by such entailment.

On the other hand, the "perpetual entailment of estates" was a favorite of the common law,—supporting, as it did, the right of primogeniture, and growing out of the feudal system.

Even in the nineteenth century, and especially in comparison with England, commentators repeatedly highlighted how important the abolition of entailment and primogeniture was to preventing the dynastic concentration of wealth.

Word Forms

• entailments
• intailment

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Use entailment when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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