Definition of Implicative

1. Adjective. Tending to suggest or imply. "An implicative statement"

Exact synonyms: Suggestive
Similar to: Connotative
Derivative terms: Imply, Imply, Imply, Suggest

Definition of Implicative

1. a. Tending to implicate.

Definition of Implicative

1. Adjective. Tending to implicate or to imply; pertaining to implication. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Implicative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Implicative

implexion
implexions
impliable
implicand
implicands
implicant
implicants
implicate
implicated
implicates
implicating
implication
implicational
implicational propositional calculus
implications
implicative (current term)
implicatively
implicativeness
implicature
implicatures
implicit
implicit cognition
implicit function
implicit functions
implicit in(p)
implicitization
implicitly
implicitness
implicitnesses
implicity

Literary usage of Implicative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Rationalism: The Development of a Constructive Realism Upon the by Edward Gleason Spaulding (1918)
"ANALYSIS AND THE NEW LOGIC CHAPTER XXI FURTHER implicative SITUATIONS AND NEW METHODS OF ESTABLISHING PREMISES THE discussion of the dilemma and of analogy ..."

2. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt, Walter Taylor Marvin, William Pepperell Montague, Ralph Barton Perry, Walter B. Pitkin, Edward Gleason Spaulding (1912)
"But the implicative relation is not. It cuts across the physical field, ... Against this view Montague looks upon the implicative relation as being ..."

3. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: A Book of Directions Compiled with by Guy Montrose Whipple, ( (1915)
"An implicative question is one that assumes or at least implies the ... In practise, it is clear that a determinative question might become implicative if ..."

4. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt (1912)
"If, on the other hand, this implicative relation is transitive, the percipient knows immediately some term in the implicative series beyond his own brain ..."

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