Word: inference
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...bike, etc. we learn that Kochalka and his wife are trying to have a baby. Whatever sort of important discussions they may have had about this are only cursorily touched on in the "diary." Even the moment they learn she is pregnant goes unrecorded. We have to infer it from a strip about her morning sickness. But the delights of the book are in Kochalka's endearingly quirky personality and simple, but not uncrafted graphical style. We could take lessons from his focus on being in the moment...
...held inside the large glass atrium at Sony Plaza in midtown Manhattan, the dialogue takes on a decidedly bookish tone. The seven men and one woman huddled around a marble-topped table on a stormy night settled on a question inspired by the writer Ayn Rand. "Can you objectively infer an ethical principle?" asks Al Ostroff, 76, an artist and writer. "Kant would emphatically say yes," replies Evan Sinclair, 53, who works in marketing. "Plato would think differently," counters Larry Hui, 43, an attorney...
Betsy Lerner’s Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories is, as one might infer by glancing at the title, not much more refreshing. Newsday claims that the work is “destined to take its place alongside the classics of adolescent angst, Girl Interrupted and The Bell...
...House members who voted to block this funding received an average of five times more money from the tobacco companies in the last two election cycles than those who voted for the funding. These kinds of examples, where only a few dots need be connected to infer political corruption, are what the BCRA and campaign finance reform in general will stop for good...
...book, Ely (pronounced EE-lee) argued that judges cannot interpret the Constitution by its language and history alone, nor can they infer a code of morality from it. Instead, Ely said, judges have an obligation to protect the democratic process as laid out in the Constitution...