"implicit claim" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a claim that can be inferred indirectly or implied by a statement rather than explicitly stated. For example, "He said he would not be voting in the election, but his implicit claim was that he did not support any of the candidates."
Gays and lesbians who are open about their sexuality make an implicit claim that homosexuality is legitimate and morally upright.
This was the obverse of the judge's implicit claim that swearing would be offensive only if done in moderation.
Photographs rest on the implicit claim that what they represent was actually presented before the camera's impersonal eye.
The implicit claim that librarians aren't "expert" researchers would certainly explain a large portion of the library literature.
Certainly, without Mr Friedman's implicit claim that the natural rate was a constant, the theory would have made far less of a stir in the first place.
But many good ones were insulted by the implicit claim that low scores at schools beset by poverty were due solely to poor teaching.
Corporate stocks represent implicit claims on after-tax corporate profits, which typically amount to no more than 10percentt of G.D.P.
Nevertheless I found it hard to believe the narrator's implicit claims that his mutually exploitative relationship with Mitko provided any sort of model for more general workings of desire.
There are important questions for ethicists to answer concerning how alternativists typically market their products and services, such as: Is it ethical for practitioners to make explicit or implicit claims of safety and therapeutic effectiveness without sufficient scientific evidence to back them up?
China's investments have been growing, as have its lending (and implicit claims on assets if loans don't pay off).
So a self-governing agent does not merely endorse her motives: her endorsements are implicit claims about which motives have the support of her reason.
