Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inferential"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Inferential \In`fer*en"tial\, a.
Deduced or deducible by inference. ``Inferential proofs.''
--J. S. Mill.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
inferential
adj 1: relating to or having the nature of illation or inference;
"the illative faculty of the mind" [syn: {illative}]
2: (logic) of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a
necessary and specific conclusion
3: resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference; "an
illative conclusion"; "inferential reasoning" [syn: {illative}]
4: derived or capable of being derived by inference
5: based on interpretation; not directly expressed
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