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inference /ˈɪnf(ə)r(ə)ns /noun1A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning: researchers are entrusted with drawing inferences from the data it seemed a fair inference that such books would be grouped together...- In which case it remains unreasonable to base inductive inferences on evidence described in those terms.
- The preceding chapters have given us at least some feel for which inferences are deductively valid, and why.
- Now, if reason generates only judgements about the world and inferences therefrom, it is hard to see how it can be a motive to act.
Synonyms deduction, conclusion, reasoning, conjecture, speculation, surmise, thesis, theorizing, hypothesizing, presumption, assumption, supposition, reckoning, extrapolation, reading between the lines; guesswork, guessing informal guesstimate rare ratiocination 1.1 [mass noun] The process of inferring something: his emphasis on order and health, and by inference cleanliness...- Nothing more need be added because, by inference, nothing could be more sublime.
- It became fairly clear, by inference, that the sort of people who bought the clothes she sold were not her sort of people.
- I couldn't hear what she was saying but it had to be - by inference - that she loves him too.
Derivatives inferential /ɪnf(ə)ˈrɛnʃ(ə)l / adjective ...- Its main contribution was an epistemological method, based on inferential reasoning.
- The inferential reasoning for tendency or coincidence evidence is considered dangerous as it permits a person to be judged by their conduct on other occasions.
- Earth, however, has become so modified during its geological history that we cannot use this inferential method to reconstruct the initial state of our own planet.
inferentially /ɪnf(ə)ˈrɛnʃ(ə)li / adverb ...- Certainly, inferentially, his family can testify about certain things and answer certain questions.
- Notice also that an inferentially justified belief need not have been arrived at through inference, though it often will have been.
- A party appearing before a tribunal is entitled to know, either expressly stated by it or inferentially stated, what it is to which the tribunal is addressing its mind.
Origin Late 16th century: from medieval Latin inferentia, from inferent- 'bringing in', from the verb inferre (see infer). |