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probable
Likely to happen or to be true:
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  1. Likely to happen or to be true:
  2. Likely but uncertain; plausible.
  3. Likely to occur or be; that can reasonably but not certainly be expected
presumed
Appearing to be the most probable, often with some preparations starting to be made for it.
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  1. Appearing to be the most probable, often with some preparations starting to be made for it.
conjectural
Inclined to make conjectures
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  1. Inclined to make conjectures
  2. In the nature of a conjecture, or based on a conjecture.
hypothetical
Based upon a hypothesis; conjectural
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  1. Based upon a hypothesis; conjectural
  2. Given to the use of hypotheses
  3. Based on, involving, or having the nature of a hypothesis; assumed; supposed
presumptive
Based on presumption, probability, conjecture, hypothesis or belief
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  1. Based on presumption, probability, conjecture, hypothesis or belief
  2. Giving reasonable ground for belief
  3. Making presumptions; behaving as one who presumes, who assumes that which they perhaps shouldn't.
supposed
Intended:
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  1. Intended:
  2. Presumed to be true or real without conclusive evidence:
  3. Permitted:
suppositional
Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural.
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  1. Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural.
  2. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
supposititious
Suppositional; hypothetical
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  1. Suppositional; hypothetical
  2. Substituted with intent to deceive or defraud; spurious; counterfeit
  3. Hypothetical; supposed.
suppositive
Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed.
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  1. Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed.
  2. Having the nature of, based on, or involving supposition
Find another word for inferential. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for inferential, like: probable, presumed, to be inferred, to be expected, likely, conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, presumptive, supposed and suppositional.

Sentence Examples

  • History of an inferential and summary sort only can be derived from monuments in the absence of written records.

  • In this way the Presocratics and Sophists, and still more Socrates and Plato, threw out hints on sense and reason, on inferential processes and scientific methods which may be called anticipations of logic. But Aristotle was the first to conceive of reasoning itself as a definite subject of a special science, which he called analytics or analytic science, specially designed to analyse syllogism and especially demonstrative syllogism, or science, and to be in fact a science of sciences.

  • Two things are certain about inferential judgment: one, that when inference is based on sense and memory, inferential judgment starts from a combination of sensory and memorial judgment, both of which are beliefs that things exist; the other, that in consequence inferential judgment is a belief that smiliar things exist.

  • judgment is always true of its sensible object, inferential judgments are not always true, but are true so far as they are logically inferred, however indirectly, from sense; and knowledge consists of sense, memory after sense and logical inference from sense, which, we must remember, is not merely the outer sense of our five senses, but also the inner sense of ourselves as conscious thinking persons.

  • But, as the science of inference, it can make sure that inference, on the one hand, starts from sensory judgments about sensible things and logically proceeds to inferential judgments about similar things beyond sense, and, on the other hand, cannot logically go beyond the similar.

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