Entailment

En-tail′ment

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Noun.

1.

The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.

2.

The condition of being entailed.

3.

A thing entailed.

Brutality as an hereditary

entailment

becomes an ever weakening force.

R. L. Dugdale.

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Noun.

The act of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent, or of limiting the descent to a particular heir or heirs.

1.

The act of settling unalienable on a man and his heirs.

entailment ‎(plural entailments)

The act of entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed.

Entailment does not imply causation: if a set of premisses entail a conclusion, that does not mean (necessarily) that they cause that conclusion to be true.

An argument hinges upon entailment whereas an if-then sentence hinges upon implication.