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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



... the rose-coloured petticoat, with its dimmed white fringe and seed-pearl arabesques, was duly exhibited in order to suggest a similar pleasing reflection. A handsome coral rosary hung from one side of an inferential belt, which emerged into certainty with a large clasp of silver wrought in niello; and, on the other side, where the belt again became inferential, hung a scarsella, or large purse, of crimson velvet, stitched with pearls. Her little fat right-hand, which looked as if it had been made of paste, ...
— Romola • George Eliot
... different hints and assertions of the Bible we think a better inferential argument might be constructed to prove the ministration of departed spirits than for many a doctrine which has passed in its day for ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... taken, in this work." Verkan Vall pressed the button on the hand battery. The globe on the floor flashed and vanished. "Yesterday, five paratimers were arrested. Any or all of them could have had door-activators with them. Stranor Sleth says they were not tortured, but that is a purely inferential statement. They may have been, and the use of the activator may have been extorted from one of them. So I want a look at the inside of that conveyer-chamber before we ...
— Temple Trouble • Henry Beam Piper
... attorney had called his first witness and the bailiff rapped loudly for order. For three days the State put witness after witness on the stand and by expert medical testimony, by toxicologists, by direct and inferential testimony, the district attorney more than proved the case which he had ...
— An American Suffragette • Isaac N. Stevens


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


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