Was (wer) ist inference - definition

ACT OR PROCESS OF DERIVING LOGICAL CONCLUSIONS FROM PREMISES KNOWN OR ASSUMED TO BE TRUE

Inference procedure; Infer; Logical inference; Inferences; Inferred; Inferring; Rational inference; Inference technique; Infers; Inferencing; Reading between the lines; To read between the lines; To Read Between the Lines; Automatic inference; Automatic inferences; Automatic logical inference

inference

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¦ noun

1. a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

2. the process of reaching a conclusion by inferring.

Derivatives

inferential adjective

inferentially adverb

inference

1) to draw, make an inference from

2) an invalid; valid inference

3) an inference that + clause (we made the inference that she had been wrongly accused)

inference

(inferences)

An inference is a conclusion that you draw about something by using information that you already have about it.

There were two inferences to be drawn from her letter.

= conclusion

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Inference is the act of drawing conclusions about something on the basis of information that you already have.

It had an extremely tiny head and, by inference, a tiny brain.

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Wikipedia

Inference

Inferences are steps in reasoning, moving from premises to logical consequences; etymologically, the word infer means to "carry forward". Inference is theoretically traditionally divided into deduction and induction, a distinction that in Europe dates at least to Aristotle (300s BCE). Deduction is inference deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true, with the laws of valid inference being studied in logic. Induction is inference from particular evidence to a universal conclusion. A third type of inference is sometimes distinguished, notably by Charles Sanders Peirce, contradistinguishing abduction from induction.

Various fields study how inference is done in practice. Human inference (i.e. how humans draw conclusions) is traditionally studied within the fields of logic, argumentation studies, and cognitive psychology; artificial intelligence researchers develop automated inference systems to emulate human inference. Statistical inference uses mathematics to draw conclusions in the presence of uncertainty. This generalizes deterministic reasoning, with the absence of uncertainty as a special case. Statistical inference uses quantitative or qualitative (categorical) data which may be subject to random variations.

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