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inference

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(logic)inference - The logical process by which new facts are derived from known facts by the application of inference rules.

See also symbolic inference, type inference.
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No fragments which can be identified as belonging to the first period survive to give us even a general idea of the history of the earliest epic, and we are therefore thrown back upon the evidence of analogy from other forms of literature and of inference from the two great epics which have come down to us.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
Again, there is a composite kind of recognition involving false inference on the part of one of the characters, as in the Odysseus Disguised as a Messenger.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
But if he put the inference by without a smile it was also without irritation.
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