All illation synonyms

noun illation

• inference — the act or process of inferring.
• conviction — a fixed or firmly held belief, opinion, etc
• agreement — An agreement is a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people.
• verdict — Law. the finding or answer of a jury given to the court concerning a matter submitted to their judgment.
• opinion — a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
• settlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
• resolution — a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
• interpretation — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
• premise — Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
• argument — An argument is a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.
• analysis — Analysis is the process of considering something carefully or using statistical methods in order to understand it or explain it.
• acumen — keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a situation; shrewdness
• proposition — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
• hypothesis — a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.
• rationale — the fundamental reason or reasons serving to account for something.
• resolve — to come to a definite or earnest decision about; determine (to do something): I have resolved that I shall live to the full.
• deduction — A deduction is a conclusion that you have reached about something because of other things that you know to be true.
• ratiocination — the process of logical reasoning.
• corollary — A corollary of something is an idea, argument, or fact that results directly from it.
• determination — Determination is the quality that you show when you have decided to do something and you will not let anything stop you.
• deliberation — Deliberation is the long and careful consideration of a subject.
• result — to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
• meditation — the act of meditating.
• reasoning — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
• thinking — of or relating to thinking or thought.
• rumination — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
• assumption — If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof.
• answer — When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them.
• finding — an act of finding or discovering.
• musing — absorbed in thought; meditative.
• consideration — Consideration is careful thought about something.
• cogitation — concerted thought or reflection; meditation; contemplation: After hours of cogitation he came up with a new proposal.
• judgment — an act or instance of judging.
• reflection — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
• contemplation — thoughtful or long consideration or observation
• derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.
• thought — Informal. the act or a period of thinking: I want to sit down and give it a good think.
• consequence — The consequences of something are the results or effects of it.
• speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
• logistics — symbolic logic.
• case — A particular case is a particular situation or incident, especially one that you are using as an individual example or instance of something.
• reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
• induction — the act of inducing, bringing about, or causing: induction of the hypnotic state.
• syllogism — Logic. an argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises, of which one (major premise) contains the term (major term) that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other (minor premise) contains the term (minor term) that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term (middle term) that is excluded from the conclusion. A typical form is “All A is C; all B is A; therefore all B is C.”.
• proof — evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its truth.
• generalization — the act or process of generalizing.
• dialectics — the study of reasoning or of argumentative methodology
• sequitur — a conclusion that follows from the premises
• decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
• conclusion — When you come to a conclusion, you decide that something is true after you have thought about it carefully and have considered all the relevant facts.