ILLATIVE

illative. Illative, a. that may be drawn or inferred

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Il″la‐tive (?), a. [[L. illativus: cf. F. illatif.]] Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive; as, an illative consequence or proposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc. Illative conversion (Logic), a converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that form must be true because the original proposition is true. — Illative sense (Metaph.), the faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the conditions and determines upon the correctness of inferences.