Meaning & use
entailment
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the action of making something necessary as a consequence, or, in logic, a relationship in which the truth of one statement guarantees the truth of another.
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The policy's entailment of higher taxes made it unpopular with voters.
In logic, 'all dogs are mammals' entails that 'this dog is a mammal.'
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Common in academic writing on logic and linguistics, where it describes a strict, necessary relationship between statements.
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