1. The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

Though it may chance to be right in the conclusions, it is yet

unjust and mistaken in the method of inference.

Glanvill.

2. That which inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which

is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction. Milton.

These inferences, or conclusions, are the effects of reasoning, and

the three propositions, taken all together, are called syllogism,

or argument.

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