Quotes About Inference

People can't help what topics cut them deep. It all depends on who's inferring - and what the contexts of their lives are at the time.

Nobody could infer the master-mind in the top of that edifice from the edifice itself.

DüÅŸünce, d??ar?dan al?nan izlenimlerin mekanik ve otomatik olarak bir araya getirilmesi ve bunlardan bir ç?kar?m yap?lmas?d?r.

Being' cannot be derived from higher concepts by definition, nor can it be presented through lower ones. But does this imply being no longer offers a problem? Not at all. We can infer only that 'Being' cannot have the character of an entity. Thus we cannot apply to Being the concept of 'definition' as presented in traditional logic, [...] which, within certain limits, provides a justifiable way of characterizing 'entities'.

James Hutton, peering at the fine detail of geological stratigraphy, newly exposed by eighteenth century industrial works. Realizing a simple story was illusory, he instead inferred a world in which 'we find no vestige of a beginning—no prospect of an end'.

From a drop of water, said the writer, a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it. Like all other arts, the Science of Deduction and Analysis is one which can only be acquired by long and patient study nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it.

Casi todo el mundo, ante una sucesión de hechos, acertará a colegir qué se sigue de ellos... Los distintos acontecimientos son percibidos por la inteligencia, en la que, ya organizados, apuntan a un resultado. A partir de éste, sin embargo, pocas gentes saben recorrer el camino contrario, es decir, el de los pasos cuya sucesión condujo al punto final. A semejante virtud deductiva llamo razonar hacia atrás o analíticamente

I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.

É um grande erro teorizar antes de ter todos os indícios. Prejudica o raciocínio.

Quien se guiase por la lógica podría inferir de una gota de agua la existencia de un océano Atlántico o de un Niágara sin necesidad de haberlos visto u oído hablar de ellos. Toda la vida es, asimismo, una cadena cuya naturaleza conoceremos siempre a partir de uno solo de sus eslabones.

One conclusion which emerged from this imaginary operation was that all changes in electric and magnetic force (for instance, those caused by an oscillating circuit) sent waves spreading through space; and that these waves had the same transverse character, and the same speed, as light. 'We can scarcely avoid the inference', he wrote in a monumental sentence, 'that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.

And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside. (165)

knew I was letting myself be swayed by a single, recent, anecdotal case.

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.

Correlation does not imply causation,

where what cannot be seen is inferred by what the visible does.

Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.

Unless you have more information, however, it's hard to say what's causing what.

Correlation does not equal causality.

A correlation simply means that a relationship exists between two factors—let's call them X and Y—but it tells you nothing about the direction of that relationship. It's possible that X causes Y; it's also possible that Y causes X; and it may be that X and Y are both being caused by some other factor, Z.

Logic matters. It leads us from simple ideas to surprising conclusions.

fallacy of extrapolation":

Social psychologists have found that we are overconfident, sometimes to the point of delusion, about our ability to infer what other people think, even the people who are closest to us.27 Only when we ask those people do we discover that what's obvious to us isn't obvious to them. That's why professional writers have editors.