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Proviso

An article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract, grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced, usually beginning with the word provided; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso.

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Condition 76% connected

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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Precondition 76% connected

A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.

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Stipulation 76% connected

The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.

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Provision 92% connected

The act of providing, or making previous preparation.

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Formalism noun · 78% connection

(philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded…

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Logicism noun · 78% connection

(philosophy) the philosophical theory that all of mathematics can be derived from formal logic

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Mechanism noun · 78% connection

(philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes

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Peripateticism noun · 78% connection

(philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science…

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Argument noun · 78% connection

a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning; "I can't follow your l…

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Argumentation noun · 78% connection

a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning; "I can't follow your l…

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Assumption noun · 78% connection

a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured, we can i…

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Cogency noun · 78% connection

the quality of being valid and rigorous

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Conclusion noun · 78% connection

the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllo…

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Contradiction noun · 78% connection

(logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement ‘he is brave and he is not brave’ is a contradiction"

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Contradiction in terms noun · 78% connection

(logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement ‘he is brave and he is not brave’ is a contradiction"

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Deduction noun · 78% connection

reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)

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Deductive reasoning noun · 78% connection

reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)

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Fallacy noun · 78% connection

a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

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False belief noun · 78% connection

a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

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Implication noun · 78% connection

something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"

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Inference noun · 78% connection

the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusi…

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After preposition · 78% connection

Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and…

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And conj. · 78% connection

A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, o…

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Antimetathesis noun · 78% connection

A rhetorical figure resulting from a reverted arrangement in the last clause of a sentence of the two principal words of the clause pr…

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Apodosis noun · 78% connection

The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clau…

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Article noun · 78% connection

A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treatin…

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Assize noun · 78% connection

A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the…

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Bayes' theorem noun · 78% connection

(statistics) a theorem describing how the conditional probability of a set of possible causes for a given observed event can be comput…

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Clause noun · 78% connection

a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)

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Conditional adjective · 78% connection

imposing or depending on or containing a condition; "conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional support"; "the conditiona…

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Contract noun · 78% connection

To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.

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Convention verb · 78% connection

An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respec…

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Coordinate clause noun · 78% connection

a clause in a complex sentence that is grammatically equivalent to the main clause and that performs the same grammatical function

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Covenant noun · 78% connection

An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stip…

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Dependent adjective · 78% connection

(of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or…

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