About The Word Illative
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Illative
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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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Illative: See Also | 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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