What (who) is Infer - definition

ACT OR PROCESS OF DERIVING LOGICAL CONCLUSIONS FROM PREMISES KNOWN OR ASSUMED TO BE TRUE

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Infer

·vt To offer, as violence.

II. Infer ·vt To bring on; to Induce; to Occasion.

III. Infer ·vt To Show; to Manifest; to Prove.

IV. Infer ·vt To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to Adduce; to Allege; to Offer.

V. Infer ·vt 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.

infer

¦ verb (infers, inferring, inferred) deduce from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.

Derivatives

inferable (also inferrable) adjective

Origin

C15 (in the sense 'bring about, inflict'): from L. inferre 'bring in, bring about'.

Usage

Do not confuse the words infer and imply. They can describe the same situation, but from different points of view. If a speaker or writer implies something, as in he implied that the General was a traitor, it means that the person is suggesting something though not saying it directly. If you infer something from what has been said, as in we inferred from his words that the General was a traitor, this means that you come to the conclusion that this is what they really mean.

infer

(infers, inferring, inferred)

If you infer that something is the case, you decide that it is true on the basis of information that you already have.

I inferred from what she said that you have not been well...

By measuring the motion of the galaxies in a cluster, astronomers can infer the cluster's mass.

= deduce

VERB: V that, V n

Some people use infer to mean 'imply', but many people consider this use to be incorrect.

The police inferred that they found her behaviour rather suspicious.

VERB: V that

Wikipedia

Inference

Inferences are steps in reasoning, moving from premises to logical consequences; etymologically, the word infer means to "carry forward". Inference is theoretically traditionally divided into deduction and induction, a distinction that in Europe dates at least to Aristotle (300s BCE). Deduction is inference deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true, with the laws of valid inference being studied in logic. Induction is inference from particular evidence to a universal conclusion. A third type of inference is sometimes distinguished, notably by Charles Sanders Peirce, contradistinguishing abduction from induction.

Various fields study how inference is done in practice. Human inference (i.e. how humans draw conclusions) is traditionally studied within the fields of logic, argumentation studies, and cognitive psychology; artificial intelligence researchers develop automated inference systems to emulate human inference. Statistical inference uses mathematics to draw conclusions in the presence of uncertainty. This generalizes deterministic reasoning, with the absence of uncertainty as a special case. Statistical inference uses quantitative or qualitative (categorical) data which may be subject to random variations.

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Pronunciation examples for Infer

1. can infer bias.

Iddris Sandu _ Black Creatives in Technology _ Talks at Google

2. to infer anything else

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3. infer my intent.

Making a Difference _ Sully Sullenberger _ Talks at Google

4. what people infer.

The Pun Also Rises _ John Pollack _ Talks at Google

5. infer non-publicly available information,

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Examples of use of Infer

1. We will be right to infer a nuclear weapons program.

2. We can only infer in this context that gay must equal bad, uncool or embarrassing.

3. If that‘s why he appointed her, we can only infer that Jack Straw wasn‘t.

4. QUESTION: Are you –– so can we infer –– would it be safe for us to infer that you are not planning to change the way you go about raising money for the Rangel Center?

5. Scientists can infer the size of a solar system object by its brightness, just as one can infer the size of a faraway light bulb if one knows its wattage.