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nounthe reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
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- think use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
- reason the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
- understanding the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
- logic the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
- sensed detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues
- intellect the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
- perceived detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues
- analogy an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others
- presumption (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed
- corollary (logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition