"macroinference" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1983, Sociology Toward the Year 2000: The Sociological Galaxy, page 28",
          "text": "Thus the crucial criterion for selecting middle-level units for macroinferences is the scope of the consequences of behaviors in the microcontext.",
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          "ref": "1991, D. Das, Korean Economic Dynamism, page 172",
          "text": "Assessing the optimality of external borrowing is a difficult proposition indeed, but this need not keep us from reaching macroinferences.",
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          "ref": "2012, Paul Smolensky, “One the Proper Treatment of Connectionism”, in David J. Cole, James H. Fetzer, Terry L. Rankin, editors, Philosophy, Mind, and Cognitive Inquiry, page 197",
          "text": "Macroinference is not a process of firing a symbolic production but rather of qualitative state change in a dynamical system, such as a phase transition.",
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          "ref": "2014, Karin Knorr Cetina, A.V. Cicourel, Advances in Social Theory and Methodology, page 66",
          "text": "The everyday settings alluded to above are of interest because they make it possible for organizations to achieve their own macro-inferences about their own day-to-day activities.",
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        "An inference that is based on multiple small bits of data, each of which contribute a supporting microinference."
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