logical inference
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflogicalandinference
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logical
adjective
uk/ˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
using ...
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inference
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.fər.əns/us/ˈɪn.fɚ.əns/
a guess that you make or an opinion that you form based on the information that ...
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His method was interpretation, rather than explanation based onlogicalinference.
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Alogicalinferenceapproach allows for a knowledge-based element to the process of question answering.
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The connections are heterogeneous: positive and negative analogy, synecdoche,logicalinference, convention, and so on.
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It is tempting to account for the validity oflogicalinferencein terms of the way that (normal, healthy) cognitive systems actually reason.
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The alternatives the agent compares in this way are descriptions of events or facts; they therefore are susceptible tologicalinference.
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On the other hand, the reasoning consists of conscious choices of thelogicalinferencerules to be applied.
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Finally, a major aspect of the design has been the use of alogicalinferenceengine that makes use of abductive reasoning.
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In a fully expansive theorem prover the cost is especially high becauselogicalinferenceis required to reconstruct the term (as a theorem).
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In the non-standard type inference approach to program analysis, properties are represented by particular types (called non-standard types), and program analyses are presented via a system oflogicalinferencerules.
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As well, the widely varying influence of seventeenth-century philosophers is insufficiently understood, with charges of rationalism often levelled at theologians who uselogicalinferenceor deduction.
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Our translation of chain programs into relational equations enables us to regardlogicalinferencefrom such programs as the evaluation of relational expressions built from union and composition.
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What is thelogicalinferenceof blueness?
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This was the onlylogicalinference.
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I simply wish to explain that that seems to me a perfectlylogicalinference.
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I do not say that thislogicalinferenceis an accurate inference.
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That is the obvious andlogicalinference.
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It was thelogicalinference.
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If that be so, thelogicalinferencefrom that position is that we should grow no cereals at all but import all our requirements, whether of animal or human food.
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