14 Metaphors for inference

When he asserts that "Count Von Bülow committed himself to the crude doctrine that neutral ships plying between neutral ports would not be liable to interference," the inference is not a necessary result of the German position.

The inference is doubtless over-hasty.

In fact, the inferences are all the other way.

Inference is only a higher form of the same process.

The inference from our own spiritual, self-conscious, free personality to that of God is no unauthorized anthropomorphismin the knowledge of God we may fearlessly deify our human existence, because God, when he created man, gave his divine nature human form.

A young girl, Madeline Taylor by name, of Florence, Massachusetts, who has until recently been employed in Berry's flower shop, was found dead this morning with the gas jet fully turned on, the inference being clearly suicide.

The Ideas carry with them an unavoidable illusion of objective reality, and the sophistical inferences which spring from them are not sophistications of men, but of pure reason itself, are natural misunderstandings from which even the wisest cannot free himself.

It is sometimes argued that such non-rational inferences are merely the loose fringe of our political thinking, and that responsible decisions in politics, whether they are right or wrong, are always the result of conscious ratiocination.

The limits of possible experience are also the limits of the knowable; inferences to the continued existence of the soul after death and to the being of God are vain sophistry and illusion.

The inference was the existence of an internal secretion.

There was also the alternative statement that Adonais, unequipped with the shield of wisdom or the spear of scorn, had been so rash as to 'dare the unpastured dragon in his den'; and from this the natural inference is that not any 'shaft which flies in darkness,' but the dragon himself, had slaughtered the too-venturous youth.

The plain inference is that he is a person who habitually addresses letters to medical men, and as the style of the envelope and the letteringwhich is printed, not embossedis commercial, we may assume that he is engaged in some sort of trade.

The inference from our own spiritual, self-conscious, free personality to that of God is no unauthorized anthropomorphismin the knowledge of God we may fearlessly deify our human existence, because God, when he created man, gave his divine nature human form.

Carver, professing freedom from any tincture of credulity, leaves us 'to draw what conclusions we please.' The natural inference is 'private information,' about which the only difficulty is that Carver, who knew the topography and the chances of a secret messenger arriving to prompt the Jossakeed, does not allude to this theory.

14 Metaphors for  inference