Implicational (Adjective)
Meaning
Relating to or concerned with logical implication; "implicational language universals".
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- The implicational theory of meaning in linguistics holds that a speaker's meaning is inferred from the literal meaning of the sentence.
- In implicational semantics, the focus is on what is implied by an utterance rather than on what is literally said.
- Grice's implicational theory of meaning accounts for the gap between what is said and what is meant in a conversation.
- Implicational reasoning is a type of reasoning in logic that uses implications to arrive at conclusions.
- In linguistics, implicational language universals are principles that relate to the logical implications of linguistic structure.