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The term Inference is used both for a process and for a product of thought.
Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock
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The word Inference is used in two different senses, which are often confused but should be carefully distinguished.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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My friend, the philosopher Scott Carson, has recently put up a post entitled Further Notes on Ampliative and Non-ampliative Inference, which is ultimately about the endlessly controversial idea of the development of doctrine DD.
Ampliative development of doctrine Mike L 2006
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My friend, the philosopher Scott Carson, has recently put up a post entitled Further Notes on Ampliative and Non-ampliative Inference, which is ultimately about the endlessly controversial idea of the development of doctrine DD.
Archive 2006-12-01 Mike L 2006
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Sentilla calls the Inference Engine a first-of-its-kind and says it provides the first consolidated view of where, when and why energy is used.
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'Inference' denotes Sm/r/iti which, in order to be authoritative, depends on something else (viz. Scripture).
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881
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-- 'Inference' means 'that which is inferred,' i.e. the
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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"Inference" describes the movement from particular to particular via generality, and, if done correctly, was viewed as an infallible source of knowledge.
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Clifford Clogg (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990), 93–114; Charles N. Halaby, “Panel Models in Sociological Research: Theory into Practice,” Annual Review of Sociology 30 (2004), 507–44; Morgan and Winship, Counterfactuals and Causal Inference.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Inference: Low-cal, remember it is a relative word.
Archive 2009-04-01 Anjali 2009
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