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n. The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true.

n. The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

n. Something inferred.

n. Usage Problem A hint or suggestion: The editorial contained an inference of foul play in the awarding of the contract. See Usage Note at infer.

n. The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

n. That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.

n. The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

n. That which inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.

n. The formation of a belief or opinion, not as directly observed, but as constrained by observations made of other matters or by beliefs already adopted; the system of propositions or judgments connected together by such an act in a syllogism—namely, the premises, or the judgment or judgments which act as causes, and the conclusion, or the judgment which results as an effect; also, the belief so produced.

n. Reasoning from effect to cause; reasoning from signs; conjecture from premises or criteria; hypothesis.

n. the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation

"In that sense of the term inference in which it is confined to the consequent, it may be said that --"

logical thinking    reasoning    abstract thought   

comparative inference    correct inference    complete inference    analogical inference    ampliative inference    hypothetic inference    fermatian inference    incomplete inference    apagogical inference    leading principle of inference   

entailment    corollary    extrapolation    derivation    implication    deduction    presumption    analogy   

statistical inference    deductive inference    inductive inference   

deduction    conclusion    consequence    collection    induction    derivation    illation    corollary    sequela    generality   

deduction    conclusion    generalization    judgments    conjecture    supposition    hypothesis    interpretation    guess    analogy