Illation vs X - What's the difference?
illation | x |
The act of inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises; a conclusion, a deduction.
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.2:
* 1690 , (John Locke), An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding :
* 1974 , (Guy Davenport), Tatlin! :
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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As a noun illation
is the act of inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises; a conclusion, a deduction.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.illation
English
Noun
(en noun)- Now herein there seems to be a very erroneous Illation : from the Indulgence of God unto Cain, concluding an immunity unto himself [...].
- 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 [...].
- 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 [...].