Word Meanings - CONCLUDENCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. Sir M. Hale.

Related words: (words related to CONCLUDENCY)

• DEDUCTION
  1. Act or process of deducing or inferring. The deduction of one language from another. Johnson. This process, by which from two statements we deduce a third, is called deduction. J. R. Seely. 2. Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as,
• INFERENCE
  1. The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction. Though it may chance to be right in the conclusions, it is yet unjust and mistaken in the method of inference. Glanvill. 2. That which inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another
• CONCLUSION
  The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See Syllogism. He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion. Addison. 5. Drawing
• MISCONCLUSION
  An erroneous inference or conclusion. Bp. Hall.