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Adjective: illative  ilutiv
  1. Relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
    "the illative faculty of the mind"
    - inferential
     
  2. Resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
    "an illative conclusion"
    - inferential
     
  3. Expressing or preceding an inference
    "'therefore' is an illative word"

See also: deductive, inference

Encyclopedia: Illative