• An immediate inference is an inference which can be made from only one statement or proposition. For instance, from the statement "All toads are green"...
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  • Inferences are steps in logical reasoning, moving from premises to logical consequences; etymologically, the word infer means to "carry forward". Inference...
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  • logic and mathematics, contraposition, or transposition, refers to the inference of going from a conditional statement into its logically equivalent contrapositive...
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    Rules of inference are ways of deriving conclusions from premises. They are integral parts of formal logic, serving as norms of the logical structure...
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  • Obversion (category Immediate inference)
    In traditional logic, obversion is a "type of immediate inference in which from a given proposition another proposition is inferred whose subject is the...
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    Therefore, Socrates is not immortal. A mixed ratiocination interposes an immediate inference, resulting in more than three propositions. However, a mixed ratiocination...
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  • Conjunction elimination (category Rules of inference)
    elimination, or simplification) is a valid immediate inference, argument form and rule of inference which makes the inference that, if the conjunction A and B is...
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  • Disjunction introduction (category Rules of inference)
    true, then the conclusion is also true as any rule of inference should be, and an immediate inference, as it has a single proposition in its premises. Disjunction...
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  • to: Inverse (logic), a type of conditional sentence which is an immediate inference made from another conditional sentence Additive inverse, the inverse...
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  • Converse (logic) (category Immediate inference)
    propositions, the subject is distributed while the predicate is not, and so the inference from an A statement to its converse is not valid. As an example, for the...
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  • Inverse (logic) (category Immediate inference)
    logic, an inverse is a type of conditional sentence which is an immediate inference made from another conditional sentence. More specifically, given...
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  • Subalternation (category Immediate inference)
    Subalternation is an immediate inference which is only made between A (All S are P) and I (Some S are P) categorical propositions and between E (No S...
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  • the complementary term "immortal" in the first premise using the immediate inference known as obversion (that is, the statement "No humans are immortal...
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  • fruits." Thus the relationships of the square of opposition may allow immediate inference, whereby the truth or falsity of one of the forms may follow directly...
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  • statements and arguments, both through the study of formal systems of inference and the study of arguments in natural language. The scope of logic can...
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    which the amplitude was 6° 18′ 57″, they obtained 57,097 toises. The immediate inference from this was that, with the degree diminishing with increasing latitude...
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  • The set of all outputs of a function from a given set of inputs. immediate inference A process of reasoning in which a conclusion is directly derived...
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  • In perceptual psychology, unconscious inference (German: unbewusster Schluss), also referred to as unconscious conclusion, is a term coined in 1867 by...
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    Square of opposition (category Inference)
    ISBN 978-0-393-93078-8. "Introduction to Logic - 7.2.1 Finishing the Square and Immediate Inferences". 2021-08-10. Parry & Hacker, Aristotelian Logic (SUNY Press, 1990)...
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  • In computing, IIf (an abbreviation for Immediate if) is a function in several editions of the Visual Basic programming language and ColdFusion Markup...
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  • about Colarbasus can be at once traced, through transcription or immediate inference, to something in the text of Irenaeus not far distant from the place...
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  • Spillover (experiment) (category Statistical inference)
    that researchers must take into account. One key assumption for unbiased inference is the non-interference assumption, which posits that an individual's...
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  • languages construct imperative forms similarly to Turkish. Free choice inference Imperative logic Modality (natural language) Pragmatics Speech act Jary...
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  • Computational phylogenetics, phylogeny inference, or phylogenetic inference focuses on computational and optimization algorithms, heuristics, and approaches...
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    A statistical hypothesis test is a method of statistical inference used to decide whether the data provide sufficient evidence to reject a particular...
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  • generalization of a Bayesian network, in which not only probabilistic inference problems but also decision making problems (following the maximum expected...
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  • system that generates theorems from axioms and inference rules, especially if the only postulated inference rule is modus ponens. Every Hilbert system is...
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    boundary. Identifying a Markov blanket or boundary allows for efficient inference and helps isolate relevant variables for prediction or causal reasoning...
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  • theoretical frameworks that ground and justify methods of statistical inference, estimation, hypothesis testing, uncertainty quantification, and the interpretation...
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  • modeled. For general graphs, the problem of exact inference in CRFs is intractable. The inference problem for a CRF is basically the same as for an MRF...
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