Artificial intelligent assistant

*Presume* and *Imply* I am not sure about the usage of the word _presume_. For example, is the sentence _differentiability implies continuity_ equivalent to _differentiability presumes continuity_ or to _continuity presumes differentiability_ or to none of them? How come?

_Presuming_ is something that people do. Author $X$ can _presume_ something in order to take a particular approach in writing a proof. Conditions like differentiability and continuity do not _presume_ anything about each other. I think you are really thinking about _sufficient_ and _necessary_ conditions.

_Differentiability implies continuity_ : this means that for differentiability to hold, continuity must also hold.

That is interchangeable with:

_Differentiability necessitates (requires) continuity_.

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To explain what I meant with sufficient and necessary conditions:

Say _X is sufficient for Y_. This is equivalent to _If X, then Y_.

Note that this does not mean _If Y, then X_. The implication is one-way.

On the other hand, a necessary condition works like this:

Say _A is necessary for B_. This is equivalent to _If B, then A_. (Whenever we have B, we must have A --- it's necessary!)

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