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Illation  n.  The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion. "Fraudulent deductions or inconsequent illations from a false conception of things."





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"Illation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Aristotle, is "the progression from singulars to universals."[699] It is an illation of the universal from the singular as legitimated by the laws of thought. All knowledge, therefore, begins with singulars—that is, with individual objects. And inasmuch as all knowledge begins with ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker


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