implicator

Someone or something that implicates; a sign or indicator for an implicature, or one who calls attention to the implication.

Noun

  1. Someone or something that implicates; a sign or indicator for an implicature, or one who calls attention to the implication.
    • So likewiſe many planets in a moveable ſign; Mercury in the houſe of the Moon; or the Moon in the houſe of Merury, induce the ſame conſequences; and planets accidentally poſited, eſpecially the Moon, are obvious...
    • After this had been read to the “staff” and after a reporter had been severely reprimanded for saying that “he didn’t see it,” it was printed. Emboldened by his success, the Doctor on the same day became what he calls...
    • According to Grice, conversational implicators know they are implicating something novel and signal to their listener not only that they are doing so but how it is to be taken; conventional implicators implicate things...
  2. One who is involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.
    • THE practice of Duelling first took its rise in the Military department in the army, where an officer was impeached for cowardice, want of prowess, or martial fortitude; to wipe away this stigma, honorable satisfaction...
    • Murder at Fermoy, Arrest of Supposed Implicators in, 5 o 5 / - 1852, Index to the Times Newspaper, 1852. Autumnal Quarter—October 1 to December 31, Shepperton: Samuel Palmer, […], published 1886, page 28, column 2:
    • The Chamber of Indictments decided to-day to send 50 individual implicators in the recent conspiracy for trial before the high court of justice. - 1870 June 6, “[Latest News] France”, in The Freeman’s Journal, and Daily...
  3. One who initiates a project.
    • Skilled assistance was presumably on the spot, however, in the persons of two doctors, the original implicators of the hospital; […] - 1881 December 2, Medical News and Collegiate Herald, page 63, column 1:
  4. The antecedent of an implication.
    • Residuated implicators are quite important since a t-norm T and an implicator I can only satisfy the residuation principle T(x,y) ≤_L z ⇔ y ≤_L I(x,z) if and only if the implicator I equals the residuated implicator...

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