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Inference Quotes by David Hume
- If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.
- ... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The connection between the…
- 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…
- 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…
- The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly regarded as unsafe…
More Inference Quotes
- Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon
- Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they… — Herbert Spencer
- A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference… — C.S. Lewis
- Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists… — Isaac Asimov
- Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such… — Bertrand Russell
- If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences… — David Hume
- Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God… — John B. S. Haldane
- In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that… — Bertrand Russell
- Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world. — Ronald Fisher
- Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths.… — John Stuart Mill
- The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so… — Kurt Gödel
- Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is… — James Madison