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Illative

Illative Meaning & Definition
Illative Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Illative?

[adj] (grammar) expressing or preceding an inference; "`therefore' is an illative word"
[adj] resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference; "an illative conclusion"; "inferential reasoning"
[adj] relating to or having the nature of illation or inference; "the illative faculty of the mind"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Illative: deductive | inferential | inferential

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Illative In Webster's Dictionary

\Il"la*tive\, a. [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} (Metaph.), the faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the conditions and determines upon the correctness of inferences.
\Il"la*tive\, n. An illative particle, as for, because.

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