illative

adj 1: relating to or having the nature of illation or inference;

"the illative faculty of the mind" [syn: {inferential}]

2: resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference; "an

illative conclusion"; "inferential reasoning" [syn: {inferential}]

3: (grammar) expressing or preceding an inference; "`therefore'

is an illative word"

RELATIVE

Early system on IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).