Inference Quotes

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No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is… — David Hume
Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had… — Arthur Conan Doyle
How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences) — Edmond Jabes
At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within the blink of… — David Berlinski
No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is to be inferred… — Chanakya
Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists that result are… — David Berlinski
We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic… — James Clerk Maxwell
Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which… — David Hume
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it. — Duane Michals
Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature… — Carl Jung
I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes… — Eugene V. Debs
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge,… — Asa Gray
The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man… — Ronald Fisher
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… — Edward Felten
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data… — Stephen Jay Gould
The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences… — Friedrich Nietzsche
TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were:… — Ambrose Bierce
Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we… — Nelson Goodman
Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is… — John Dewey
The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment… — Hugo Black

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