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Inferential   /ɪnfərˈɛnʃəl/   Listen
Inferential

adjective
1.
Relating to or having the nature of illation or inference.  Synonym: illative.
2.
Of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion.
3.
Resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference.  Synonym: illative.  "Inferential reasoning"
4.
Derived or capable of being derived by inference.
5.
Based on interpretation; not directly expressed.





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"Inferential" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the colonel's spirit was raging in sympathy with the storm, and in spite of his wife, for some one had started a tale that Sumter and his household had ostentatiously called upon Robert Ray Lanier, in close arrest, in utter disfavor and inferential disgrace. ...
— Lanier of the Cavalry - or, A Week's Arrest • Charles King
... reply. "All that remains is inferential. The castle was attacked at night by Turks ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace
... with injunctions; still it is impossible to impugn on that ground the authoritativeness of passages conveying the knowledge of the Self; for such passages have their own result. Nor, finally, can the authoritativeness of the Veda be proved by inferential reasoning so that it would be dependent on instances observed elsewhere. From all which it follows that the Veda possesses authority as a means of right ...
— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 • George Thibaut


Words linked to "Inferential" :   deductive, inference, constructive, connotative, logic


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