#inference

This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe. ↗

— Michael Behe

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#beginning #creation #distant #event #expanding

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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#deduction #direct #inference #intercourse #learn

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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#complete #confers #confidence #false #gift