implicatorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

implicator (複数形 implicators)

1. Someone or something that implicates; a sign or indicator for an implicature, or one who calls attention to the implication.
   • 1790, Ebenezer Sibly, A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences: or, The Art of Foretelling Future Events and Contingencies, page 744:

     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 implicators of travelling.

   • 1874 November 8, “Vagaries of Dr. Barnes in the Local Campaign”, in The Brooklyn Sunday Sun, volume 2, number 24, Brooklyn, N.Y., page 4, column 4:

     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 “a recorder of developments,” and varied the role with that of an implicator of “systems,” in the following: […]

   • 2003, Douglas Robinson, Performative Linguistics: Speaking and Translating as Doing Things with Words, Routledge, →ISBN:

     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 all unawares, drawing on dead metaphors, fossilized implications, implicatures that were once dynamic but have long since become immediatized through long repetition.

2. One who is involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.
   • 1807 March 2, “Duelling”, in The Precursor, volume I, number XV, Montpelier, Vt., page [4], column 2:

     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 was required, to decide the question by display of fortitude in personal combat with the implicator at sword and pistol.

   • 1852, Index to the Times Newspaper, 1852. Autumnal Quarter—October 1 to December 31, Shepperton: Samuel Palmer, […], published 1886, page 28, column 2:

     Murder at Fermoy, Arrest of Supposed Implicators in, 5 o 5 /

   • 1870 June 6, “[Latest News] France”, in The Freeman’s Journal, and Daily Commercial Advertiser, volume CIII, Dublin, page [3], column 4:

     The Chamber of Indictments decided to-day to send 50 individual implicators in the recent conspiracy for trial before the high court of justice.

   • 1879 June 3, “Texas Thieves. Last of the U. S. Mail Robbers Caught.”, in Geo. W. Reed, editor, Topeka Daily Blade, volume 7, number 126, Topeka, Kan., page [4], column 3:

     S. M. Farmer, city Marshal of Ft. Worth, Texas, and Deputy U. S. Marshal for the State of Texas, passed through this city to-day from Leadville, Colorado, with John Catiell and Henry Williams, two noted burglars and implicators in the recent mail robbery at Ft. Worth, taking them back to the scenes of their depredations.

   • 1883 June 22, The Sedgwick Palladium, volume II, number 6, Sedgwick, Kan., page [2], column 1:

     The star route trial has at last closed. S. W. Dorsey, alleged to have been one of the conspirators and implicators, after a three months trial, has been found not guilty and was acquitted.

   • 2008 July 31, Wren Abbott, “Probation Violation May Cost Sex Offender 18 Years”, in Rio Grande Sun, volume 51, number 44, Española, N.M., page A11, column 4:

     Maciag tried to argue that Portis was actually forced to consume the vodka by the patients who told on him, whom Maciag referred to throughout the hearing as Implicator A and Implicator B.

3. One who initiates a project.
   • 1881 December 2, Medical News and Collegiate Herald, page 63, column 1:

     Skilled assistance was presumably on the spot, however, in the persons of two doctors, the original implicators of the hospital; […]

4. (logic) The antecedent of an implication.
   • 2008, M. Nachtegael; P. Sussner; T. Mélange; E.E. Kerre, “An Interval-Valued Fuzzy Morphological Model Based on Lukasiewicz-Operators”, in Jacques Blanc-Talon, Salah Bourennane, Wilfried Philips, Dan Popescu, and Paul Scheunders, editors, Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 10th International Conference, ACIVS 2008, Juan-les-Pins, France, October 2008, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 5259), Springer, →ISBN, page 605:

     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 I_T.

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