illation
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
illation
- The act of inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises; a conclusion, a deduction.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.2:
- Now herein there seems to be a very erroneous Illation: from the Indulgence of God unto Cain, concluding an immunity unto himself […]
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding:
- it so orders the intermediate Ideas, as to discover what Connection there is in each Link of the Chain, whereby the Extreams are held together; and thereby, as it were, to draw into View the Truth sought for, which is what we call Illation or Inference […]
- 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
- Adriaan moved to Pierce’s American illation whereby an if begets a therefore, event by event, the javelin’s flight issuing from the web of contingencies in which we may locate the javelin and the javelineer […]
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.2:
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