Illation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of inferring or drawing conclusions.
  • n. A conclusion drawn; a deduction. Also called illative.
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  • n. The act of inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises; a conclusion, a deduction.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of inferring from premises; inference.
  • n. That which is inferred; an inference; a deduction; a conclusion.
  • n. In liturgics: The act of bringing the eucharistic elements into the church and placing them on the altar.
  • n. In the Mozarabic liturgy, the eucharistic preface. It is of great length, and varies according to the Sunday or festival.
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  • n. the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    logical thinking    reasoning    abstract thought   
    Hyponym
    entailment    corollary    extrapolation    derivation    implication   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    inference    deduction    conclusion   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    scholia    inall    tactility    criterium    scrunch   
     
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