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/ˌɪnfɝˈɛnʃəɫ/
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ADJECTIVE
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resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
inferential reasoning
an illative conclusion - derived or capable of being derived by inference
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relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
the illative faculty of the mind - based on interpretation; not directly expressed
- of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion
How To Use inferential In A Sentence
- When Western translations use the term analytical meditation for "discerning meditation," it gives the impression that this first phase of the meditation, inferential cognition, is the only phase. The Relation between Shamatha, Vipashyana, and Discerning and Stabilizing Meditations
- The presence of such stones in the kidney is very often inferential, and it will be a great boon, both to the surgeon and the patient, if we shall be able to demonstrate positively their presence by skiagraphy. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896
- S's believing or assenting to P is based on his justifying propositional reason Q.= df S's believing or assenting to P is causally sustained in a nondeviant manner by his believing or assenting to Q. and by his associating P and Q. Moser limits this account of the basing relation to instances of inferential knowledge, unlike the more general characterization of the basing relation given above. The Epistemic Basing Relation
- The first phase of the research examines the extent to which differences in memory and inferential skills contribute to comprehension difficulties.
- inferential reasoning
- The bottom tray usually is not the best place to make an inferential measurement of composition.
- The bottom tray usually is not the best place to make an inferential measurement of composition.
- To different degrees (as illustrated in the inferential results below) MPs tend to stand for positive usage of a value and oppose the negation of these values.
- The term conversion by negation has been arbitrarily limited to the exact inferential procedure of permutation followed by simple conversion. Deductive Logic
- It contrasts with the ostensive-inferential model that characterizes human communication. The Times Literary Supplement