Definition of Infer

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Definition of Infer

Infer

To bring on; to induce; to occasion.

To offer, as violence.

To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.

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; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence.

To show; to manifest; to prove.

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Infer Quotations

It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.
Maimonides

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
Thomas Babington

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
Arthur Conan Doyle

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
George Berkeley

If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.
Charles Inglis

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.
Peter R. Grant

Infer Translations

infer in Danish is slutte
infer in Dutch is besluiten, afleiden, concluderen
infer in French is conclure
infer in German is folgern
infer in Latin is coniecto
infer in Norwegian is slutte seg til, antyde
infer in Spanish is inferir

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