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Inferring

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.]

  1. To bring on; to induce; to occasion. [Obs.]
    --Harvey.

  2. To offer, as violence. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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inferring

vb. (present participle of infer English)

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inferring

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infer

  1. v. reason by deduction; establish by deduction [syn: deduce, deduct, derive]

  2. draw from specific cases for more general cases [syn: generalize, generalise, extrapolate]

  3. conclude by reasoning; in logic [syn: deduce]

  4. guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize" [syn: guess]

  5. believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?" [syn: understand]

  6. [also: inferring, inferred]

Usage examples of "inferring".

This is a warning against inferring at once from the possibility of concepts (logical) the possibility of things (real).

So what can one learn of human memory by studying humans - especially the disorders of memory resulting from disease or accident — what neuropsychologists describe as inferring function from dysfunction?

There are of course always problems about inferring the nature of normal processes from the study of the effects of injury, as in the example offered by Russell.

When this is not impossible, it must often happen that the opposite of any proposition contradicts the subjective conditions of thought only, but not the object itself, or, that both propositions contradict each other under a subjective condition, which is mistaken as objective, so that, as the condition is false, both may be false, without our being justified in inferring the truth of the one from the falseness of the other.

I believe that the discovery of our own motives can only be made by the same process by which we discover other people's, namely, the process of observing our actions and inferring the desire which could prompt them.

The argument against him is not conclusive, since he may be able to show some valid way of inferring our awareness.

Induction is the inverse process, of inferring the general rule from a limited number of particular instances.

I mean that when you see a Woman, you ought - besides inferring her breadth - to see her length, and to see what we call her height.