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inference
/ˈɪn.fɚ.əns/
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What does inference mean?
noun
- The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
- That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
- Output generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.
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noun
- An instance or example of this, such as a prediction, classification, decision, etc.
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But the faculty of articulate speech comes in, enabling us to form the crude elements of reason and inference into a code.
A warning example may be found in the inference which is made from the sentence given a criminal because of “identical motive.”
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The only inference possible, he replied, is that pleasures which are approved by the lover of wisdom and reason are the truest.
Whether reason hears that justification before God is obtained by grace alone, it draws the inference that the Law is without value.
But every hypothesis is won by inference from certain presuppositions, and every inference is based on the general principles of human thought.