Quotes About Inferred

mental states can be inferred from actions. That's in history—Henry VIII and all that. Whereas in the private life, I think the converse is true: that you can infer past actions from current mental states.

That the famous confession, uttered in the neighborhood of Cesarea Philippi, really contains in germ the doctrine of Christ's divinity, might be inferred from the simple fact that Jesus was satisfied with it; for He certainly claimed to be Son of God in a sense predicable of no mere man, even according to synoptical accounts of His teaching.

Viruses couldn't be viewed with an optical microscope; they couldn't be grown in a culture of chemical nutrients; they couldn't be captured, as bacteria could, with a porcelain filter. They could only be inferred.

like gravity, beauty is a force whose existence is inferred from its apparent effects.

The self does not stand alone; as we've seen, the self is not a thing, let alone a thing in itself. Rather, we experience selfhood as a renewable capacity to construct and field identities. Like evanescent particles in a cloud chamber, the existence of the self is inferred from its byproducts.

American spirituality has always favored the direct over the inferred, the immediate over the gradual.

where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic historian, inferred from revealed self-evident wisdom* *Made it up and extrapolated from associated sources** **had read a lot of stuff that other people had made up, too.

THE 'THE' IS IMPLIED!

One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with the means of recording and preserving thought. In the end, history is primarily the study of civilizations, because without written records the historian is thrown back on spearheads and pot fragments, from which much less can be inferred. The

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

obliquely and delicately,

The unseen is almost always underlined with the unsaid.

They [sensing types] will not skim in reading, and they hate to have people skim in conversation. Believing that matters inferred are not as reliable as matters explicitly stated, they are annoyed when you leave things to their imagination. (Intuitives are often annoyed—if not actually bored—when you do not.)