What is the difference between implication and inference?
implication | inference |
(uncountable) The act of implicating.
(uncountable) The state of being implicated.
(countable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
* 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
(countable, logic) The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".
(uncountable) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
(countable) That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
In uncountable terms the difference between implication and inference
is that implication is the state of being implicated while inference is the act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.In countable terms the difference between implication and inference
is that implication is an implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words while inference is that which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.implication
English
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- But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.