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Implication

Implication may refer to:

Logic

Logical consequence (also entailment or logical implication), the relationship between statements that holds true when one logically "follows from" one or more others
Material conditional (also material implication, material consequence, or implication), a logical connective and binary truth function typically interpreted as "If p, then q"
- Implicational propositional calculus, a version of classical propositional calculus which uses only the material conditional connective
Strict conditional or strict implication, a connective of modal logic that expresses necessity
Implication elimination or modus ponens, a simple argument form and rule of inference summarized as "p implies q; p is asserted to be true, so therefore q must be true"