inference

The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Something inferred.

A hint or suggestion.

The formation of a belief or opinion, not as directly observed, but as constrained by observations made of other matters or by beliefs already adopted; the system of propositions or judgments connected together by such an act in a syllogism—namely, the premises, or the judgment or judgments which act as causes, and the conclusion, or the judgment which results as an effect; also, the belief so produced.

Reasoning from effect to cause; reasoning from signs; conjecture from premises or criteria; hypothesis.

The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

That which inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.