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illation

noun
/ɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/UK/əˈleɪʃ(ə)n/US

Etymology

From Latin illātiō (“logical inference, deduction, conclusion”), from illātus, perfect passive participle of inferō (“carry or bring into somewhere; conclude”), from in + ferō (“bear, carry; suffer”).

  1. derived from illātiō

Definitions

  1. The act of inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises

    The act of inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises; a conclusion, a deduction.

    • Now herein there seems to be a very erroneous Illation: from the Indulgence of God unto Cain, concluding an immunity unto himself […]
    • 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 […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for illation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA