illative

adjectives

relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
"the illative faculty of the mind"
illative, inferential
pertains to
inference
resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
"an illative conclusion"; "inferential reasoning"
illative, inferential
expressing or preceding an inference
"`therefore' is an illative word"
illative
is similar to
involving inferences from general principles
deductive
domain category
the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)
grammar