ENTAILMENT 3)
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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.
Categories
- 1) General information
- 2) Methodology or model
- 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
- 4) Human sciences
- 5) Discipline oriented
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
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