Timeline for Question about meaning of "implication" in this context
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| Jan 6, 2015 at 18:15 | comment | added | Jay | Oh, here's, perhaps, a better example. There's a common example of a biased question: A lawyer says to the judge, "Please direct the witness to answer my questions with a simple 'yes' or 'no'." The judge agrees, and then the lawyer asks the witness, "Have you stopped beating your wife?" The problem, of course, is that either answer is an admission of guilt: Even if he says that yes, he has stopped beating his wife, that IMPLIES that be used to beat his wife. | |
| Jan 5, 2015 at 20:51 | comment | added | Jay | apsillers and JasonPatterson: Both true. Maybe those are better examples. I was trying to come up with the simplest example I could think of so I could explain the word and not the example. | |
| Jan 5, 2015 at 18:27 | comment | added | Jason Patterson | Another point is that the ideas that follow logically are not always obvious and they are stated implicitly rather than explicitly. An example in the same vein as the OP's post: "The First Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees citizens the right to freedom of speech. Though this guarantees the average citizen's right to speak his or her mind freely, one implication of it is that unpopular and unpleasant ideas will be freely presented in public." Nowhere in the 1st Amend. does it say that unpopular ideas are legal; it is implied by the law and legal precedents. | |
| Jan 5, 2015 at 17:09 | comment | added | apsillers | A logical implication I was going to use was the statements "My hat is either in the closet or on the table," and "My hat is not on the table," imply that my hat is in the closet. Still, that might not be clearest example. | |
| Jan 5, 2015 at 16:43 | history | answered | Jay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |