By inference; as an illative; in an illative manner.
The illative fe also marks repetition or restoration or continuance; it is followed by the adverb lau again: na abana e fe boeboela lau his hand was restored whole.
Ko is used only with the personal pronoun, second singular o, and may express either present or future time: the illative may be added.
Defn: By inference; as an illative; in an illative manner.
Illative conversion (Logic), a converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that form must be true because the original proposition is true.
This illative sense is hardly a thing (if I may use an expression for ever associated with Lord Macaulay) to be cocksure about.
Newman asserts that certainty is a quality of propositions, and he has discovered in man 'an illative sense' whereby conclusions are converted into dogmas and a measured concurrence into an unlimited and absolute assurance.
And of course, his view while it had no reference to perceptual space nevertheless possessed an illative relation thereto and should be recognized as construable in that light.
One function indeed there is of Logic, to which I have referred in the preceding sentence, which the Illative Sense does not and cannot perform.
Men become personal when logic fails; it is their mode of appealing to their own primary elements of thought, and their own illative sense, against the principles and the judgment of another.
However, I can at least explain my meaning more fully; and therefore I will now speak, first of the sanction of the Illative Sense, next of its nature, and then of its range.
And such also is our duty and our necessity, as regards the Illative Sense.
Yet all this being admitted, a great number of cases remain which are perplexing, and on which we cannot adjust the claims of conflicting and heterogeneous arguments except by the keen and subtle operation of the Illative Sense.
Judgment then in all concrete matter is the architectonic faculty; and what may be called the Illative Sense, or right judgment in ratiocination, is one branch of it.
And in all these delicate questions there is constant call for the exercise of the Illative Sense.
This doctrine rests on Cardinal Newman's celebrated theory of the "Illative Sense.
Hence it is from the illative force of analogy that this topic of Design derives its value.
And with respect to illative analogy, this rule becomes obviously more stringent still.
The following passages refer to the illativeanalogy which forms the proper shape of the argument from Design.
In the latter we have developed at great length the important thought that the illative character of propositional judgments implies an objective relation; and that in all truths the subject-idea must be objective.
Hence, so far as mere relational form is concerned, the illative relation itself may be wholly reduced to the symmetrical relation of opposition.
It is the so-called illative relation, the relation which obtains between two classes when one is subsumed under the other, or between two statements, or two decisions, when one implies or entails the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "illative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: case; deductive; nominative; prepositional
