Quotes About Inference

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Where were they—oh, right. The kitchen. In the Audience House. He had come in the back. So he could come…in the back.

We are always making assumptions about wholes based on knowing only parts.

Physical law is what makes it possible to study the past; examine the state of the universe closely enough, and we can infer its state a moment earlier in time.

But the moment of creation is where all causal chains end; inference can lead us back to this moment and no further.

Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

specified confidence intervals (for example, the statement that 40 per cent of the balls in the jar are white, at a confidence interval of 95 per cent, implies that the precise value lies somewhere between 35 and 45 per cent - 40 plus or minus 5 per cent).

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations

Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own.

Nihil sequitur geminis ex particularibus unquam.

I deduce nothing: according to the rules of syllogism nihil sequitur geminis ex particularibus unquam, no law can be drawn from two single facts.

The task of general semiotics is that of tracing a single formal structure which underlies all these phenomena, this structure being that of the inference which generates interpretation. The task of specific semiotics, on the other hand, will be that of establishing—according to the sign system in question—the rules of greater or lesser semiotic necessity for inferences (institutionalization rules).

Those words were like… they were like seeing a bloody knife. You didn't need to have witnessed the stabbing to understand what it meant.

In making sense of what you say, in appreciating your jokes, in unmasking your chess-stratagems, in following your arguments and in hearing you pick holes in my arguments, I am not inferring to the workings of your mind, I am following them. Of course, I am not merely hearing the noises that you make, or merely seeing the movements that you perform. I am understanding what I hear and see. But this understanding is not inferring to occult causes.

if he had examined only one signal-box and knew nothing about the standardisation-methods of large corporations, his inference would be pitiably weak, for it would be a wide generalisation based on a single instance.

The only exercise I get is jumping to conclusions.

History is a riddle, to be solved by inference... We see the puppets dance, but the springs which move them are invisible, and must be conjectured.

Post hoc, propter ergo hoc. After this, because of this.

Show me a man's closest companions and I can make a fairly accurate guess as to what sort of man he is, as well as what sort of man he is likely to become.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

rescuing and vindicating, giving commandments, judging and punishing, and most importantly God's acts in Jesus, sending him forth, handing him over to redemptive death, and raising him and exalting him to superlative glory. So theologizing about "God" in the NT is essentially making inferences based on God's acts.

to know that an inference is deductively valid is to know that there are no situations in which the premisses are true and the conclusion is not.

Jede Folgerung, die wir aus unseren Beobachtungen ziehen, ist meistens voreilig: Denn hinter den wahrgenommenen Erscheinungen gibt es solche, die wir undeutlich sehen, und hinter diesen wahrscheinlich noch andere, die wir überhaupt nicht erkennen.