Inference vs Sequitur - What's the difference?
inference | sequitur |
(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.
A logical conclusion or consequence of facts.
*1843 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’:
*:He is accordingly in haste to show that it was not kept on shore; for, if so, ‘some trace would be found on shore of the murderers’. I presume you smile at the sequitur .
