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

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

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noun. Something inferred.

noun. A hint or suggestion.

noun. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

noun. 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 --"