Implication and Topic

noun

• Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied. )
  • usage: "his resignation had political implications"
  • synonyms: deduction, entailment
• A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred.
  • usage: "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
  • synonyms: significance, import
• An accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection.
• A logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false.
  • synonyms: logical implication, conditional relation
• A relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement. )
  • usage: "he was suspected of implication in several robberies"

• (n.) An implying or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
• (n.) The act of implicating or the state of being implicated.

noun

• The subject matter of a conversation or discussion.
  • usage: "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love"
  • synonyms: subject, theme
• Some situation or event that is thought about.
  • usage: "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police"
  • synonyms: subject, issue, matter

• (n.) A treatise on forms of argument; a system or scheme of forms or commonplaces of argument or oratory; as, the Topics of Aristotle.
• (a.) Topical.
• (n.) The subject of any distinct portion of a discourse or argument or literary composition; also, the general or main subject of the whole; a matter treated of; a subject, as of conversation or of thought; a matter; a point; a head.
• (n.) An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc.
• (n.) An argument or reason.
• (n.) One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory.