ADJECTIVE
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resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
inferential reasoning
an illative conclusion -
relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
the illative faculty of the mind -
expressing or preceding an inference
`therefore' is an illative word
How To Use illative In A Sentence
- A man can reason well about familiar matter; but, unless he has explicitly examined the illative process, he will hesitate and err when dealing with new subject-matter. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- For the proving of which, I shall premise this one note, (which indeed is clear of itself from the very illative particle therefore,) that this and the following verse are so joined together, as to make up one argument; of which argument this verse is the antecedent, and the other the consequent, or inference drawn from it. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
- the illative faculty of the mind
- `therefore' is an illative word
- Chesterton was really saying by a comparison with the "illative sense" of Cardinal Newman. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- The common relations between sentences indicated by conjunctions are coördinative, subordinative, adversative, concessive, and illative. English: Composition and Literature
- That this verse contains a conclusion, is evident from the illative particle The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
- How ever, it is certain, that, by the former kind of merely illative necessity, the thing decreed will assuredly have its event. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
- If in this verse is not signified Christ's taking on him our nature, how comes it to pass, that, in the next verse, which has an illative dependence upon this, the seed of Abraham are called his brethren? for his being their deliverer only would not make them his brethren; but his taking of our nature properly does. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
- I answer, No; for there is a great deal of difference between a mere illative necessity, which consists only in the logical consequence of one thing upon another, and between a causal necessity, which efficiently and antecedently determines and puts the faculty upon working. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.