Inference

Act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true

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. Deduction is inference deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true, with the laws of valid inference being studied in logic.

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