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Illative

adjective
1.
Relating to or having the nature of illation or inference.  Synonym: inferential.
2.
Resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference.  Synonym: inferential.  "Inferential reasoning"
3.
Expressing or preceding an inference.






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"Illative" Quotes from Famous Books



... perception of moral truths, in addition to, and distinct from, our reason." And the writer goes on to make an "uncompromising assertion of reason as the one supreme faculty of man. To depreciate reason (he says) to the profit of some supposed 'moral' illative sense, would be to open the door to the most desolating of all scepticisms, and to subordinate the basis of our highest intellectual power to some mere figment ...
— Creation and Its Records • B.H. Baden-Powell



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