Implies

Examples

• This is the doctrine of the vulgar, and implies no contradiction. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• As its name implies, it was dedicated to the service of the Muses, which was also the case with the Peripatetic school at Athens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• An interrupted appearance to the senses implies not necessarily an interruption in the existence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Any activity with an aim implies a distinction between an earlier incomplete phase and later completing phase; it implies also intermediate steps. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The statement that a gun has a length of 45 calibers, for example, implies that the gun is forty-five times the bore’s diameter. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Positive science always implies practically the ends which the community is concerned to achieve. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But increased freedom for those who deserve it means increased responsibility; for it implies the possibility of error. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The contrary belief, attending the possibility, implies a view of a certain object, as well as the probability does an opposite view. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It implies everything amiable. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• What then is meant by a distinction of reason, since it implies neither a difference nor separation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This is a second influence of general rules, and implies the condemnation of the former. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This implies a very valuable quality. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• That is a contradiction in terms; and even implies the flattest of all contradictions, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• All of these words mean that it implies attention to the conditions of growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This implies that the situation as it stands is, either in fact or to us, incomplete and hence indeterminate. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The infinite divisibility of space implies that of time, as is evident from the nature of motion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• As the name implies, stretching a wire is unnecessary in wireless telegraphy, though in order to understand the finer points of theory one needs to stretch the imagination a little. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It requires time, use, insight, event, all the great lessons and assistances of God; and only to think of using it implies character and profoundness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• An aim implies an orderly and ordered activity, one in which the order consists in the progressive completing of a process. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• My father is Miss Havisham's cousin; not that that implies familiar intercourse between them, for he is a bad courtier and will not propitiate her. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• This conclusion, which implies great breaks or discontinuity in the series, appears to me improbable in the highest degree. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But, as the reader of this history must realize, there is no such difference as the opposition of these names implies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Habit, and this almost implies that some benefit great or small is thus derived, would in all probability suffice for the work. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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