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inferential | inferentialism |

As an adjective inferential

is of, pertaining to, or derived using inference.

As a noun inferentialism is

(philosophy) inferential role semantics: an approach to the theory of meaning that identifies the meaning of an expression with its (typically inferential) relationship to other expressions.

inferential

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or derived using inference

    • inferentialism

    English

    (Inferential role semantics)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (philosophy) Inferential role semantics: an approach to the theory of meaning that identifies the meaning of an expression with its (typically inferential) relationship to other expressions.
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    • , passage=This crude inferentialism about recognition, of course, is not often explicitly defended: it is extremely implausible—just on plain phenomenological grounds—that recognition must be a matter of discursive reasoning. }}