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inference

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1 : the act or process of inferring
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: the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow logically from that of the former
2 : something inferred
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: a proposition arrived at by inference see also permissive presumption at presumption
3 : the premises and conclusions of a process of inferring