Abstract
In common usage, the verb to entail means ‘to have as an inevitable accompaniment’ or ‘to involve unavoidably’. In logic, the usage is tightened to explicitly involve inference, whence ‘to entail’ means ‘to necessitate as a consequence’. That the logical usage of ‘entailment’ in the consequential sense is more stringent than its common usage in the concomitant sense is concisely expressed in the cliché “Correlation does not imply causation.”
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Louie, A.H. (2013). The Logic of Entailment. In: The Reflection of Life. IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering, vol 29. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6928-5_6
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