Sentence examples for probable inference from inspiring English sources

Any attempt to infer (2) from (1) by a probable inference will be viciously circular it will involve supposing what we are trying to prove.

"But this," the Britannica adds, "is of course only a probable inference; there is no prototype extant in Jewish literature".

This is a puzzling dismissal, assuming Descartes has relaxed his standards to probable inference.

Locke was sufficiently sceptical about what knowledge we can attain that he constructed one of the first accounts of probable inference to show that belief can meet standards of rationality that make experimental natural philosophy intellectually respectable.

He goes on to apply both his method, and its concrete results, to other prominent debates in the modern period, including probable inference, testimony for miracles, free will, and intelligent design.

About this time, Peirce began to hold that there were two utterly distinct classes of probable inferences, which he referred to as inductive inferences and abductive inferences (which he also called hypotheses and retroductive inferences).

Prior to about 1865, thinkers on logic commonly had divided arguments into two subclasses: the class of deductive arguments (a.k.a. necessary inferences) and the class of inductive arguments (a.k.a. probable inferences).

Error and uncertainty have two possible sources according to Bolzano: either the premises that one presupposes are uncertain (or even false), or one has used a mere probability inference (WL III, 265 f ., i.e., an inference whose conclusion asserts the truth of a proposition s itself instead of merely asserting the truth of the proposition [s is probable] (WL II 510).

However, it is probable that inferences can be drawn for carriers of other types of detrimental BRCA2 mutations since this mutation is a 5 base pair deletion in exon 9 leading to an early truncation of the BRCA2 protein.

Secondly we propose an ontology based system which predicts probable attacks using inference and information provided by the environment.

The inference to probable guilt or innocence is usually based on a patchwork of various sorts of evidence.