Inference can be explained from deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed. Read the paper or magazines and look for political cartoons or comic strips. With the example of three chickens crossing the road and only two chickens made it, well it leaves it open to what might have happened to the third chicken. Did he turn back or did he stay in the middle of the road, or worst case scenario is the chicken got hit by a car. The process of arriving at a conclusion that, though it is not logically assumed from the already assumed premises possesses some degree of probability relative to the premises. the act or process of inferring. an inferred conclusion, deduction. Any process of reasoning from premises to a conclusion.