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CONSEQUENCE

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in Logic, the conclusion or what results from reason or argument. See CONCLU- SION.

The consequence is that other proposition in which the extremes or premises of a syllogism are joined, or separated; and is gained from what was inferred in the premises.

This word, in a more restrained sense, is used for the relation or connection between two propositions, where- of one is inferred from the other.