inference
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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 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.
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social inference
causal inference
inductive reasoning
generalization
deductive inference
pragmatic inference
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