In recent work, the term defeasible reasoning has typically been limited to inferences involving rough-and-ready, exception-permitting generalizations, that is, inferring what has or will happen on the basis of what normally happens.
The technique of detecting those scattered particles and inferring what it was that they bounced off is called muon tomography.
As a philosopher, I was glad to see that Low is averse to the "naturalistic fallacy" -- the mistake of inferring what is right and good from the scientific facts.
"Indeed, this is not about historians guessing or inferring what went into Star Wars, this is a book based on Lucas's notes and input about what patterns of history actually did go into Star Wars or influence his thinking," she wrote in response to questions.
What we end up doing is inferring what's going on between the two points.
This information is used for inferring what node is likely to be similar to other nodes, based on what nodes they have in common.
