illation
IPA: ɪɫˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises; a conclusion, a deduction.
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Examples of "illation" in Sentences
- It's too weird an illation for me to handle at this late hour.
- "I can neither contradict," quoth I, "thy former propositions, and I see this illation followeth from them."
- "A strange illation," quoth I, "and hard to be granted; but I see that those things which were granted before agree very well with these."
- It is not an if of doubting, but of illation and concession; seeing he hath wronged thee, and thereby has become indebted to thee; such an if as Col.iii. 1 and 2 Pet.ii. 4, &c.
- For it hath to do both in knowledge and opinion, and is necessary and assisting to all our other intellectual faculties, and indeed contains two of them, viz. sagacity and illation.
- There is an important sense, however, in which the epithet "material" has been applied to reasoning, to denote illation in which the relational formality has not yet been dissected out.
- It is besides a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation.
- It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation.
- While it would appear that boys and girls followed a common curriculum, there was gender differentiation: Girls received instruction in sewing and needlework and boys in cantillation of Torah and haftarah.
- What Burke means by compromise, and what every true statesman understands by it, is that it may be most inexpedient to meddle with an institution merely because it does not harmonise with 'argument and logical illation.'
- Revolution is alleged, and most unreasonably alleged, to have alienated him from liberalism: 'it is a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation.