Illation

Word ILLATION
Character 8
Hyphenation il la tion
Pronunciations /ɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/

Definitions and meanings of "Illation"

What do we mean by illation?

The act of inferring or drawing conclusions. noun

A conclusion drawn; a deduction. noun

The act of inferring from premises; inference. noun

That which is inferred; an inference; a deduction; a conclusion. noun

In liturgics: The act of bringing the eucharistic elements into the church and placing them on the altar. noun

In the Mozarabic liturgy, the eucharistic preface. It is of great length, and varies according to the Sunday or festival. noun

The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion. noun

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

The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation noun

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

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The word "illation" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

"I can neither contradict," quoth I, "thy former propositions, and I see this illation followeth from them." ❋ Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (1908)

"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." ❋ Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (1908)

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. ❋ John Morley (1880)

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.' ❋ John Morley (1880)

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. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

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. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

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. ❋ Unknown (1721)

What ground of consequence can warrant such an illation from these premises as this which the Bishop formeth, namely, that “all the days whereof the Apostle condemned the observation were Judaical days,” &c. ❋ George Gillespie (1630)

There's been talk of a Google-flavoured browser for years, so I don't see much cause for illation there. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[For those that are not men of art, not knowing the true forms of syllogism, nor the reasons of them, cannot know whether they are made in right and conclusive modes and figures or no, and so are not at all helped by the forms they are put into; though by them the natural order, wherein the mind could judge of their respective connexion, being disturbed, renders the illation much more uncertain than without them.] ❋ Unknown (2007)

Ori E NTAL leg illation lefs defpotic than b generally fuppofed, 553. ❋ Unknown (1780)

The experience, however, on which our approximate generalizations are grounded, has so rarely been subjected to, or admits of, accurate numerical estimation, that we can not in general apply any measurement to the diminution of probability which takes place at each illation; but must be content with remembering that it does diminish at every step, and that unless the premises approach very nearly indeed to being universally true, the conclusion after a very few steps is worth nothing. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

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