inferentially
Through logical deduction
By inference rather than direct statement or observation.
Something known inferentially is reasoned from evidence or implications: The defendant's guilt was established inferentially from circumstantial evidence.
We can only know inferentially what the original text said.
The word belongs to formal or academic contexts.
Deriving general from particular
- probabilisticBased on likelihood calculations
- empiricalBased on observation, not theory
- extrapolatedInferred beyond known data
- generalizedMade widely applicable
analogical · heuristic · speculative · conjectural · presumptive · circumstantial · hypothetical · tentative
inductive
Deriving general from particular
- probabilisticBased on likelihood calculations
- empiricalBased on observation, not theory
- extrapolatedInferred beyond known data
generalized · analogical · heuristic · speculative · conjectural · presumptive · circumstantial · hypothetical · tentative · correlational
inferentiallyempirically
Through direct observation
observationally · perceptually · intuitively · immediately · directly