Word: inference
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Instead, they must infer their existence by examining the "wobbling" in nearby stars caused by the gravitational pull of the planet...
...suit goes to trial in September. Gary Reback, the lawyer whose crusade is to break up Microsoft, contends the appointment reveals the company's arrogance in the face of the investigation. "Steve Ballmer is the most aggressive of the Microsoft management team, and based on his appointment, I would infer that there is not going to be any change in Microsoft's aggressive stance toward the Justice Department," says Reback...
...fact that the ANC resorted to terrorism against South African civilians in the latter years of the struggle to end Apartheid undoubtedly caused the group to simplisticly infer connections with the causes of Arafat, Qaddafi and more recently, Assad. The ANC's associations with the pariahs of the world delegitimized an otherwise legitimate cause and only made it more difficult for the ANC's non-Marxist, non-terrorist sympathizers to support them. Pretoria's continued pursuit of these relationships in the face of Western objections raises important foreign policy considerations for Washington...
Muralidharan, however, said that he was reluctant to infer from the similarities that Kant had been directly influenced by Hindu texts...
...take these incidents and infer the existence of broader campus sentiment is foolish. It only proves that, once again, democratic intellectuals love abstractions and generalities, just like Alexis de Tocqueville said they would over a hundred years ago in Democracy in America...