Entailments

Question 1

define entailment

Answer 1

relationship between sentences that forms the basis for inferences :

an entailment is the relationship between sentences whereby one sentence will be true if all the others are also true.

Question 2

qualities of entailments

Answer 2

purely semantic
all sentences have entailments where one sentence is true if original sentence is true
drawn from declarative sentences; for deduction/induction
allows for communication PAST utterances

Question 3

types of entailments

Answer 3

one way : ‘I saw bear; I saw an animal’

2 way/mutual: i.e. ‘i cry vs i weep’