Remarkably, he found that a simple modification of general relativity's equations entailed something that would have, well, blown Newton's mind: antigravity — a gravitational force that pushes instead of pulls.
Anything short of this would entail something that America is yet to experience in its proud history: the highly unsettling prospect that our our children's generation may end up worse off than ours.
Recall that the Brain-in-a-Vat argument purports to show that realism is incoherent on the grounds that it is both committed to the genuine possibility of our being brains in a vat and yet entails something inconsistent with this: namely, that were we to be so envatted we could not possibly have the thought that we were!
(Premise) If a person can conceive of something, and that thing entails something else, then the person can also conceive of that other thing.
Note, of course, that Scotus's account of the common nature also entails something stronger than Adams is proposing: indeed, it entails precisely the sort of minimal hypostatization that Scotus advocates.
For him, victory entails something else.
entails something of a sleight of hand.
Paul and Patricia Churchland assert that Turing's "results entail something remarkable, namely that a standard digital computer, given only the right program, a large enough memory and sufficient time, can compute any rule-governed input-output function.
They know that they need to be ready to do anything to fight against the terrorist threat, even if that entails doing something that's actually inefficient.
For instance, the principle of identity, Everything is identical to itself entails There exists something that is identical to itself.
