Sentence examples for a rational inference from inspiring English sources

For this purpose, we introduce the notion of stratification for a set of defaults, and prove that stratified sets are exactly those that induce a rational inference relation.

This behavior is indeed represented either by a set of ordered pairs that reflect the agent's preferences, or by a rational inference relation that describes the agent's internal logics.

The basic idea of our adaptive BR scheme is a rational inference that generally the occurrences of new incoming connections may be much more frequent than that of handoff connections [21 24].

Extended from text-dependent verification to text-independent verification, a rational inference could be that considering the sparsity in the real-world application and imbalanced distribution of speaker frames, it is better not to adapt those Gaussian components which contribute least in modeling speaker frames.

637, 100 L.Ed. 692 (1956) (not an oath case), the State sought to dismiss a professor for claiming the Fifth Amendment privilege in a United States Senate committee hearing; the Court held the State's action invalid because the exercise of the privilege was a constitutional right from which the State could not draw any rational inference of disloyalty.

In the framework of conditional knowledge bases and default extensions, it implies that any rational inference relation may be considered as the rational closure of a minimal knowledge base.

In this perspective, the classical notions of essence and intension are respectively interpreted as sets of necessary and defeasible consequences, giving rise to a relation ⊢ analogous to that of classical consequence, and a relation ∼ which behaves, relatively to ⊢, like a supraclassical rational inference relation.

These are only a sample of the results that have provided support for Bayesian Confirmation Theory as a theory of rational inference for science.

If a finding in favor of the defendant would not have been unreasonable, then "the court must weigh conflicting testimony, review any rational inferences that may be drawn from the evidence and evaluate the strength of such conclusions" (People v Danielson, 9 NY3d at 348).

While it is true that causal processes do warrant inferences of the sort Russell has in mind, it is not the case that all rational inferences are warranted by the existence ('postulation', in Russell's thinking) of causal lines.

Observers utilize this knowledge in deciphering social agents' behavior and signals (e.g., facial expressions), in a manner similar to rational inference in other domains.