What is the meaning of inferential?

adjective

  • Relating to or having the nature of illation or inference.
    • usage: "the illative faculty of the mind"
  • Of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion.
  • Resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference.
    • usage: "an illative conclusion"; "inferential reasoning"
  • Derived or capable of being derived by inference.
  • Based on interpretation; not directly expressed. .
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