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implicans Logic.|ɪmplɪˈkænz|
The pl. form used is implicants.
[L., pres. pple. of implicāre (see implicate v.).]
In implication (see implication 2 c), the active proposition; the proposition that implies. Cf. also implicate n. 2.
1921W. E. Johnson Logic I. ii. 30 In the implicative function ‘If p then q’, p is the implicans and q the implicate. 1922Ibid. II. x. 211 We shall take..the implicants and disjuncts to stand for particular propositions. 1930L. S. Stebbing Mod. Introd. Logic v. 70 It is clear that the order of the implicans and the implicate is not indifferent. 1937D. J. B. Hawkins Causality & Implication 61 This factor consists in the implicans being given in reality, as opposed to merely given in thought. 1953I. M. Copi Introd. Logic viii. 229 The constituent statement between the ‘if’ and the ‘then’ is called the antecedent (or the implicans). 1963J. Lyons Structural Semantics vii. 189 Sentences of the form Np [etc.]..with their transforms and implicants..are well integrated in the field. |