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How To Use inferential In A Sentence

• As a result, he said, intelligence was mainly ‘inferential’ - that means guesswork.
• Her first account of kinesic response asserts that it is the result of an inferential process. The Times Literary Supplement
• These kinds of inferential processes go on constantly in interaction, as we all know, on the basis of indexical signals that work like gestures in pantomime.
• But do we need the inferential loop? The Times Literary Supplement
• Ginzberg writes that she herself is personally convinced that the inferential pattern called modus ponens (If p, then q; p; therefore q) is valid. Feminism and Philosophy: An Exchange
• Her first account of kinesic response asserts that it is the result of an inferential process. The Times Literary Supplement
• However, as long as the first phase of the learning process is understood to be non-inferential, subjectivism can be made compatible with an "externalist" epistemology that allows for criticism of belief changes in terms the reliability of the causal processes that generate them. Bayes' Theorem
• Many philosophers also think there are senses and that they are determined by inferential roles. The Times Literary Supplement
• The process is often described as a ratiocinative or inferential process, and from this standpoint is contrasted with deductive reasoning. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
• By 'linga' (inferential mark) we here understand clauses (vâkya) which contain a specific indication; for such clauses have, according to the Pûrva Mîmâmsâ, greater proving power than leading subject-matter (prakarana). The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48