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Webster 1913 Edition
Illation
Il-la′tion
,Noun.
[L.
illatio
, fr. illatus
, used as p. p. of inferre
to carry or bring in, but from a different root: cf. F. illation
. See 1st In-
, and Tolerate
, and cf. Infer
.] The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion.
Fraudulent deductions or inconsequent
illations
from a false conception of things. Sir T. Browne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Illation
ILLA'TION
,Noun.
Definition 2024
illation
illation
English
Noun
illation (plural illations)
- The act of inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises; a conclusion, a deduction.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.2:
- Now herein there seems to be a very erroneous Illation: from the Indulgence of God unto Cain, concluding an immunity unto himself [...].
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding:
- it so orders the intermediate Ideas, as to discover what Connection there is in each Link of the Chain, whereby the Extreams are held together; and thereby, as it were, to draw into View the Truth sought for, which is what we call Illation or Inference [...].
- 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
- 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 [...].
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.2:
Translations
action of concluding or inferring