3. Are usually processed and responded to unconsciously, yet they can be identified consciously and challenged. "Your statement presupposes that I have the ability to change quickly and easily, and I disagree."

            Presuppositions have been studied extensively by linguists, and 29 different linguistic patterns of presupposition in English have been identified.

Implications:
1. Can't be identified unambiguously by examining a verbal statement. For example: "Of course, it's difficult to change quickly and easily in your everyday life." The implication that is inferred, "It will be easy to change quickly and easily here in my office" does not appear in the verbal statement and is difficult to notice.
2. Are generated by the listener actively inferring, using their own assumptions and world-view about the events described by the words. Many of these are shared among most members of a culture, but some may be unique to a subculture or an individual. One of the most fundamental of these assumptions is that the world can be divided into two opposite categories (sometimes more than two).
3. Are almost always processed and responded to unconsciously. Although they can be identified consciously, they can't be challenged in the same way that presuppositions can, because they do not exist in the statement. If the listener were to say, "Are you saying that I can change quickly and easily here in your office?" it is easy to reply, "No, I only said that it is difficult to change quickly and easily in your everyday life, isn't that true?"

            To summarize the differences, implications are much subtler than presuppositions, they are generated actively by the listener making an inference using their knowledge and assumptions, they are typically processed entirely unconsciously, and they can't be challenged in the way that presuppositions can. Verbal implication can be described as the gentle art of saying something by saying the opposite of what you want to imply.

Creating and Delivering a Verbal Implication
1. Outcome Identify your outcome for someone you are communicating with, what you would like to have happen. (They will talk freely about personal matters.)
2. Opposite Think of the opposite of this outcome (not talking freely; keeping information secret, etc.)
3. Either/or category Choose space, time, or events (matter/ process) as a way to divide the world into two opposite categories (here/there, now/later, conscious/unconscious).
4. Sentence State the opposite of your outcome in regard to the category that is not present (space, time, or event). This will imply the outcome that you want them to infer here in the present. In the examples below, the implication is presented in parentheses.

            Space
            "In your life outside this office, I'm sure that you would feel uncomfortable talking freely about private matters." (Here in the office, you can feel comfortable talking about private matters.)