inference
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5.7
- noun
- /ˈɪnfərəns/
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inferencia
- Your powers of observation and inference would make you a great detective.
- make inferences
- draw inferences
- inferences from the text
He says that they extend the same inference to the mind itself.
- He says that they extend the same inference to the mind itself.
- I'll leave it to your inference as to what it is doing now.
- And since we don't see any there, then he was making some inference about the early solar system.
- So he's going to talk about this process of inference.
- We purposefully and intentionally reject the statistical inference.
- Then you have a way to produce new statements by using the rules of logical inference from the axioms.
- So the human is built to learn this through some kind of observation and inference.
- As a Bayesian, I learned about the approach to understanding scientific inference via something called Bayes theorem.
- So, you know, you rely for the most part on on observational types of studies to make inferences about nutrition.
- We, we make the inference by comparing the ready state with the record bearing state.
- It's kind of OK at teaching them skill sets, inference, evaluation, explanation.
Examples
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We already know how to make inferences by just using the Bayes rule.
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The highly skilled epidemiologist could make inferences, and the rest of us were left to just guess.
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That is where strong inference really works well.
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I'll leave it to your inference as to what it is doing now.
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The state might be entitled to that inference.
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All of the students were invited to participate in making inferences from the results.
Academic text (2013) -
What are or are not valid are the inferences that we draw using the test results.
Academic text (2012) -
We will discuss cases involving misrepresentation or mistaken inferences of fact later on in the course.
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Finally, Ms. Perez asks guiding questions to help students make logical inferences using the text.
Academic text (2015) -
The detective reached the conclusion through careful inference based on the clues at the crime scene.
Synonyms
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3.9
A way of thinking in a clear, logical order to form a conclusion
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2.7
A guess made without enough evidence
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4.1
A conclusion reached by using reasoning and evidence
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6.9
A legal belief treated as true unless someone proves otherwise
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7.9
An idea based on little evidence
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6.0
Showing how a formula or result follows in clear steps
Deciding something from facts or reasons
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Inference comes from the Latin parts in- 'into' and ferre 'to carry'. So an inference is like 'carrying in' a conclusion from facts or clues, which is why it means a conclusion you reach from evidence.