Deduction

Drawing conclusions from premises

Many questions require multiple steps of inference before they can be answered. The simplest approach is to do this kind of reasoning within a single language model call—“chain of thought”, and that’s all we’re covering in the Primer right now:

• Chain of Thought: Let’s think step by step.

However, there are more compositional ways of approaching this, including the one outlined in the paper Selection-Inference, and the reader (you) is encouraged to implement them.