illative
AdjectiveSynonyms:
inferential
Open English WordNet
Adjective (3)
- relating to or having the nature of illation or inference“the illative faculty of the mind”Synonyms: inferentialRelating to illation
- resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference“an illative conclusion”“inferential reasoning”Synonyms: inferentialOpposite inductiveSimilar deductive
- expressing or preceding an inference“‘therefore’ is an illative word”Opposite inductiveSimilar deductive
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Il′la·tive adjective
Origin: L. illativus: cf. F. illatif.
Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive; as, an illative consequence or proposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc.
Illative conversion Logic, a converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that form must be true because the original proposition is true. — Illative sense Metaphysics, the faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the conditions and determines upon the correctness of inferences.
Il′la·tive noun
An illative particle, as for, because.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54