I suspect it was an opinion so radical in its implications – a kind of jurisdictional nuclear option — that Justice Thomas was unable to hold a majority, and that the court remained so divided in the aftermath that no one else could put together a majority as the term's clock ran out.
Even earlier, C.I. Lewis started the modern study of modal logic by introducing strict implication as a kind of deducibility, where he may have meant deducibility in a formal system like Principia Mathematica, but this is not clear from his writings.
On another front there are logicians that are fond of making the point that some of the further reaches of large cardinal theory, routinely disregarded and even disparaged by many mathematicians nevertheless have implications for a kind of low-level mathematics whose core significance is not in dispute.
In my last post, I tossed in my observations on using specialized drafting software — and its implications for hiring — as a kind of afterthought.
The intertwined sense of the weight of Howard's history and its current implications has typically inspired a kind of racial omertà — a reticence to openly speak ill of one's own in a society that is always ready to use your shortcomings against you.
And, of course, by implication -- beyond science -- a kind of arrogance of physics.
The stigma that's associated with sociopathy is a kind of implication that there is no treatment for this, so we might as well give up.
Implications of brutality, or of a kind of uncivilized inhumanity, seem to lurk in so many other questions foreign observers ask about America like: How could you set up that concentration camp in Cuba, and why can't you shut it down?
There was for Cartier-Bresson a kind of social implication in the camera.
