"In what kinds of ways are these things related?" When you want
   to understand something a little more deeply, an interesting
   experiment to try is to go to the Wikipedia of other languages
   and then run Google Translate through them. They have different
   writers, different ways of describing things, and a difficult
   concept can become clear when backtranslated into your native
   tongue. I happened upon the Wikipedia page for "Implication" by
   searching for a generic question that popped up in my head: ""In
   what kinds of ways are these things related?" Curious when I
   found no results for that exact phrase, I went to the language I
   know second best, Spanish. "*En qu* tipo de formas son estas
   cosas relacionadas?" I happen to know from my Spanish classes
   and readings of Borges in particular that Spanish and Portuguese
   literature is _very_ philosophical in nature, touching upon
   areas that we barely get to see in US academia, so I had hoped
   they'd have a more interesting set of Google search results. I
   was not disappointed. The first page for a search for *En qu*
   tipo de formas son estas cosas relacionadas? [still no exact
   matches] was the Spanish Wikipedia entry for "Implication".
   Translated back to English, the opening paragraphs were
   marvelous descriptions of the nature of "Cause". Interestingly,
   Google Translate chose "Involvement" instead of "Implication" on
   the first line, likely due to the relationship between INVOLVE
   and "FOLDING IN" or "infolded" [-Volve = Fold - the V became an
   F, the 2nd V became a D] It's a nice distinction missing from
   the English Wikipedia, which does not have a direct page like
   this; the closest page for it is one for an Analytical
   Philosophy Logic page, but in the English it goes straight to
   some heavy analytical logic stuff and misses the very
   descriptive introduction as found in the Spanish Wikipedia.
   Implication Involvement (in Latin - plicare) refers to the fact
   that there is something "folding" or bending inside something
   that hides what's inside, so that the interior is not visible or
   audible even if there. The implication is opposed to the term
   explanation (ex Latin - plicare), which is the fact that the
   display is folded; take outside, make visible, or
   comprehensible, what is "involved" something inside that made it
   hidden or not understandable. The reality of the world as an
   implicate order The reality of the world we are not manifested
   as a set of things or isolated events, but, on the contrary,
   appears as a process, as a set of facts and interrelated things
   so that some things "depend" on others, some events "happen" to
   others, or happen "as long as" an "order" occurs between certain
   circumstances etc. etc. These relationships in which some things
   depend on others, or facts happen to others, we often understand
   , in general, under the idea of cause . The knowledge of the
   world through some elaborate data captured by the senses; and
   conceptual and linguistically manage and communicate to others
   as we interpret reality and "believe" that we know the world as
   reality. This belief in the way of knowing the world as a
   relation of causes, expressed in thought and language through
   the conditional sentences that logic is formalized
   linguistically as: The chain of cause and effect constitute a
   new cause with an effect of the combination: parallel Cause and
   effect "If it rains the ground is wet" "When it rains the ground
   is wet"