Inference Quotations

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning.

Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.

Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.

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.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.