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inference
the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former; the act of passing from statistical sample data to generalizations (as of the value of population parameters) usually with calculated degrees of certainty.

Definition contributed by BGregory about nine months ago.

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NPicchetti Initial definition retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inference
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Definition contributed by BGregory about one year ago:
the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former; the act of passing from statistical sample data to generalizations (as of the value of population parameters) usually with calculated degrees of certainty. (from merriam-webster.com)

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2011-08-14 TDavis: TDavis updated the definition for deductive inference
2011-08-14 TDavis: TDavis updated the definition for deductive inference
2011-08-14 TDavis: TDavis updated the definition for deductive inference
2011-05-11 BGregory: BGregory updated the definition for inference. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/inference]
2011-05-11 NPicchetti: Added new topic to discussion
2011-04-28 BGregory: BGregory updated the definition for inductive inference. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/inductive_inference]
2011-04-18 NPicchetti: NPicchetti updated the definition for deductive inference. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/deductive_inference]
2011-04-18 NPicchetti: NPicchetti updated the definition for pragmatic inference. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/pragmatic_inference]
2011-04-18 NPicchetti: NPicchetti updated the definition for pragmatic inference. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/pragmatic_inference]
2011-04-18 NPicchetti: NPicchetti updated the definition for deductive inference. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/deductive_inference]
2011-04-18 NPicchetti: NPicchetti updated the definition for deductive inference. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/deductive_inference]
2011-04-18 NPicchetti: NPicchetti updated the definition for analogical inference. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/analogical_inference]
2011-02-17 NPicchetti: NPicchetti updated the definition for analogical inference. [view the changes at http://www.cognitiveatlas.org/term/analogical_inference]
2011-02-15 NPicchetti: NPicchetti updated the definition for deductive inference. [view the changes at http://www.cognitiveatlas.org/term/deductive_inference]
2011-02-15 NPicchetti: NPicchetti updated the definition for pragmatic inference. [view the changes at http://www.cognitiveatlas.org/term/pragmatic_inference]
2010-07-22 BGregory: BGregory updated the definition for inductive inference. [view the changes at http://www.cognitiveatlas.org/term/inductive_inference]
2010-05-10 BGregory: BGregory updated the definition for inference. [view the changes at http://www.cognitiveatlas.org/term/inference]
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