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Inference vs Corollary - What's the difference?

inference | corollary |

As nouns the difference between inference and corollary

is that inference is the act or process of inferring by deduction or induction while corollary is something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.

inference

English

(wikipedia inference)

Noun

  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * deductive inference * inductive inference * statistical inference

    corollary

    English

    Noun

    (corollaries)
  • Something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.
  • Something which occurs a fortiori , as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.
    • Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefont.
  • (mathematics, logic) A proposition which follows easily from the proof of another proposition.
    • We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary , we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.

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