Julia Glasmann (asker) Jan 13, 2015:

Thanks everybody for your help! I decided to go with "This leads to the conclusion that", I think it is an elegant way of tying both sentences together :)

gangels (X) Jan 11, 2015:

Rückschluß really means the flip side of the coin, in this case "it follows that"/"thus"/"hence"/"consequently"/"incurs"/"precipitates"/brings about". In other words, the one process cannot exist without the other; therefore, both 'conclusion' and 'inference' sound a tad too speculative