A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.
You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.
Whatever we know without inference is mental.
We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.
Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.
Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.
All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning.