Implicative used in a sentence

Implicative in a sentence as an adjective

"Progress is good" is an implicative tautology -- the seeming obviousness of the statement relies on the fact that the term "progress" strongly implies "betterness.

A quote attributed to Honoré de Balzac, but when I went to use it a few years ago I wanted a citation and found that his actual words were neither so pithy nor so broadly implicative:"Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait.