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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infer \In*fer"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inferred; p. pr. & vb. n. Inferring.] [L. inferre to bring into, bring forward, occasion, infer; pref. in- in + ferre to carry, bring: cf. F. inf['e]rer. See 1 st Bear.]
To bring on; to induce; to occasion. [Obs.]
--Harvey.To offer, as violence. [Obs.]
--Spenser.-
To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer. [Obs.]
Full well hath Clifford played the orator, Inferring arguments of mighty force.
--Shak. -
To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; as, I inferred his determination from his silence.
To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition laid down as true, to draw in another as true.
--Locke.Such opportunities always infer obligations.
--Atterbury. -
To show; to manifest; to prove. [Obs.]
The first part is not the proof of the second, but rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the first.
--Sir T. More.This doth infer the zeal I had to see him.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: infer)
WordNet
See infer
v. reason by deduction; establish by deduction [syn: deduce, deduct, derive]
draw from specific cases for more general cases [syn: generalize, generalise, extrapolate]
conclude by reasoning; in logic [syn: deduce]
guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize" [syn: guess]
believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?" [syn: understand]
Usage examples of "inferred".
It may be inferred from this that there is no particular reason for applying the term 'wish' to such tendencies"(p.
Very often our knowledge of the temporal relation of a remembered event to the present is inferred from its temporal relations to other remembered events.
The thing we have to consider to-day is this: seeing that there certainly are words of which the meaning is abstract, and seeing that we can use these words intelligently, what must be assumed or inferred, or what can be discovered by observation, in the way of mental content to account for the intelligent use of abstract words?
I THINK a logical argument could be produced to show that universals are part of the structure of the world, but they are an inferred part, not a part of our data.
His knowledge must be inferred from his bodily movements, and especially from what he says and writes.
The causal laws which our arguments would assume could be verified by the future occurrence of events inferred by means of them.
Thus the question whether a mental occurrence can be called a perception turns upon the question whether anything can be inferred from it as to its causes outside the brain: if such inference is possible, the occurrence in question will come within our definition of a perception.
Thus (apart from certain relations) the occurrences which seem most distinctively mental, and furthest removed from physics, are, like physical objects, constructed or inferred, not part of the original stock of data in the perfected science.
The necessary conclusions are imposed on the evidence, not inferred from it.
Yet the evolution read into the fossil record is inferred largely from bones and teeth.
Slipher (who, as is often the case in instances like this, was looking for something else) inferred from redshifts of the spectra of about a dozen galaxies in the vicinity of our own that the galaxies were moving away at speeds ranging up to a million miles per hour.
So no expansion of the universe is inferred, and hence there's no call for any Big Bang to have caused it.
If the redshifts have been misunderstood, then inferred distances can be wrong by a factor of from 10 to 100, and luminosities and masses wrong by factors up to 10,000.
Velikovsky responded that none of the instances he was aware of proved much at all, since the locations and dates are not specified, the year alone typically being named or inferred indirectly.
The probability of its occurrence was inferred by Sachs,* from radicles placed vertically upwards being acted on by geotropism (which we likewise found to be the case), for if they had remained absolutely perpendicular, the attraction of gravity could not have caused them to bend to any one side.