Implication

Implication may refer to:

In logic:

• Logical implication, entailment, or consequence, a relation between statements
• Material implication, or conditional implication, a binary truth function

In linguistics, specifically in pragmatics:

• Implicature
• Entailment (pragmatics)

Other uses:

• In medical diagnosis, the scientific method, and forensics, a hypothetical cause is implicated or indicated when a reason for the condition can be found, given that cause.