Richard Wright
Author
"Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented."
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Inference
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Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Whatever we know without inference is mental."
Terry Pratchett
Author
"Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid."
Edward Abbey
Author, Environmentalist
"Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary."
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"All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning."
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"Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which we have had experience."
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"We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths."
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"Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown."
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