inference

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The third division, inference, is in reality the third step of our learning process, since the inference is a new experience organized out of the selected principles and data.

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  1. noun The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true.
  2. noun The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
  3. noun Something inferred.

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  • Any further inference is all your own His mother migrated inwards then downloaded into ANA. —  Hamilton, Peter F. - [Void 01] - The Dreaming Void
  • His ground for this inference is the circumstance that the interpolation in the History, as to Edmund Mortimer's death, which is not found in the printed editions of the Ypodigma, occurs in this MS. The MS. on vellum, preserved in the Heralds' College, is a copy of the History, transcribed, as the Author conceives, by a very ignorant copyist. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri of Monmouth Vol. I by J. Endell Tyler
  • Kill them, &c.; Much is made of expressions like this, by some Christian apologists, to show the cruel character of the Arabian prophet, and the inference is thence drawn that he was an impostor and his Qurán a fraud. —  A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885
  • His ground for this inference is the circumstance that the interpolation in the History as to Edmund Mortimer's death, which is not found in the printed editions of the Ypodigma, occurs in this MS. The MS. on vellum, preserved in the Heralds' College, is a copy of the History transcribed, as the Author conceives, by a very ignorant copyist. —  Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth
  • The third division, inference, is in reality the third step of our learning process, since the inference is a new experience organized out of the selected principles and data. —  Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education
 

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  1. = French inférence = Spanish Portuguese inferencia, from Middle Latin inferentia, inference, from Latin inferre, infer: see infer.
 

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