ENTAILMENT

Charles François (2004). ENTAILMENT, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1096.

Collection	International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year	2004
Vol. (num.)	2(1)
ID	◀ 1096 ▶
Object type	Epistemology, ontology or semantics

1. A necessary and predetermined order of succession in logical argument or between facts.

2.“A necessarily included (or implied) accompaniment, such as an antecedent, constituent, adjunct or consequent” (D. Mc NEIL, 1995, pers. comm.).

Entailment, as first defined, is closely related to determinism, but does not have an absolute predictive value in complex situations.

Mc NEIL's definition emphasizes a more syntactic viewpoint, not necessarily opposed to the first one.