Quotes About Inference

from a contradiction you may deduce everything

When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' That's Spock in Star Trek VI, but he's paraphrasing Sherlock Holmes.

When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

is the unseen guest at every table, the silent listener to every conversation"—her mother thereby inferring that she too would be the unseen guest and the silent listener to every conversation.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

Don't confuse evidence with a conclusion.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Far better to give your readers some hints and then allow them to fill in the blanks for themselves. This

How do we know that?" Lucy was frowning. "By inference. She did not attach a piece of paper to a blanket with a bare pin and wrap the blanket around the baby.

Snow also saw that people who drank only beer in regions with bad air had less cholera than people who drank water in regions with better air. These and other inferences led him to suspect that the illness was waterborne and linked to human waste.

Every belief about every aspect of the world is based on countless inferences we make via mental processes we can't observe.

No random event has ever been empirically demonstrated. Events have been observed which have been interpreted as being based on randomness, but this is merely an inference, and rationalists can advance totally different inferences that never once refer to randomness.

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Descartes concludes that the only certain basis for knowledge is the principle, cogito ergo sum, and he treats the existence and nature of a mind-independent world as an inference from a prior awareness of his own consciousness and its contents. Moreover, he holds that our most certain ideas are abstract and innate, whereas ideas based on perception are subject to doubt and uncertainty.

In particular the rules of logic tell us how to create, from the opening arrangement (the list of axioms), new arrangements (called "theorems").

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Everything and anything about a culture can be inferred from the shape of its language—and

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences. —Nietzsche, Human, AU-Too-Human

In cold fact, all three statements [1, 2 and 3] contradict my actual ideas. I just wanted to remind you how easily humans can go from statement S1 to conclusion S5 without noticing that the inferences in between — S2, S3 and S4 — have no basis in logic, and result only from mechanical reflex. I already quoted Andre Gide about that. Now I quote the father of linguistic analysis, Josiah Warren; "It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.

In Zadeh's math, we can say "This animal belongs 90% to the fish family and 10% to the amphibian family." "This animal belongs 60% to the ape family and 40% to the hominid family." See? Just like the Coke can contains 60 % coke and 40% air. I told you I wouldn't leave us wandering in the dark with the Fundamentalists . . .