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English Dictionary: illative	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
illative adj relating to or having the nature of illation or inference; "the illative faculty of the mind" Synonym(s): inferential, illative resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference; "an illative conclusion"; "inferential reasoning" Synonym(s): illative, inferential expressing or preceding an inference; "`therefore' is an illative word"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Illative \Il"lative\, a. [L. illativus: cf. F. illatif.] Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive; as, an illative* consequence or proposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc. {Illative conversion} (Logic), a converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that form must be true because the original proposition is true. {Illative sense} (Metaph.), the faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the conditions and determines upon the correctness of inferences.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Illative \Il"lative\, n. An illative* particle, as for, because.