Re: Leiter in mid season form


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Erasmus "The Mannequin" Brown wrote:
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: "Erasmus "The Mannequin" Brown" wrote:
: >
: > "danfergis" wrote:
: > :
: > : Actually I vaguely recall someone posting something that inferred
that
: > : Torre would consider Leiter if, let's say, both Pavano and Wright
were
: > : not ready at the start of the season.
: >
: > I don't mean to be pedantic here, but this gives me an opportunity to
: > quote
: > Law & Order: Criminal Intent's Detective Goren:
: >
: > "You mean 'implied'. The listener 'infers'."
: >
:
: And to quote his partner, Det. Eames, "Oh, brother." :-P
:
Wasn't that after she found out that he could read Russian?


: in·fer ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-fûr)
: v. in·ferred, in·fer·ring, in·fers
: v. tr.
: To conclude from evidence or premises.
: To reason from circumstance; surmise: We can infer that his motive in
: publishing the diary was less than honorable.
: To lead to as a consequence or conclusion: "Socrates argued that a
: statue inferred the existence of a sculptor" (Academy).
: To hint; imply.
: :)

Main Entry: in·fer
Pronunciation: in-'f&r
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): in·ferred; in·fer·ring
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French inferer, from Latin
inferre, literally, to carry or bring into, from in- + ferre to carry --
more at BEAR
transitive senses
1 : to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises <we see smoke and infer
fire -- L. A. White> -- compare IMPLY
2 : GUESS, SURMISE <your letter... allows me to infer that you are as well
as ever -- O. W. Holmes died 1935>
3 a : to involve as a normal outcome of thought b : to point out : INDICATE
<this doth infer the zeal I had to see him -- Shakespeare> <another
survey... infers that two-thirds of all present computer installations are
not paying for themselves -- H. R. Chellman>
4 : SUGGEST, HINT <are you inferring I'm incompetent?>
intransitive senses : to draw inferences <men... have observed, inferred,
and reasoned... to all kinds of results -- John Dewey>
- in·fer·able also in·fer·ri·ble /in-'f&r-&-b&l/ adjective
- in·fer·rer /-'f&r-&r/ noun
synonyms INFER, DEDUCE, CONCLUDE, JUDGE, GATHER mean to arrive at a mental
conclusion. INFER implies arriving at a conclusion by reasoning from
evidence; if the evidence is slight, the term comes close to surmise <from
that remark, I inferred that they knew each other>. DEDUCE often adds to
INFER the special implication of drawing a particular inference from a
generalization <denied we could deduce anything important from human
mortality>. CONCLUDE implies arriving at a necessary inference at the end of
a chain of reasoning <concluded that only the accused could be guilty>.
JUDGE stresses a weighing of the evidence on which a conclusion is based
<judge people by their actions>. GATHER suggests an intuitive forming of a
conclusion from implications <gathered their desire to be alone without a
word>.

usage: Sir Thomas More is the first writer known to have used both infer and
imply in their approved senses (1528). He is also the first to have used
infer in a sense close in meaning to imply (1533). Both of these uses of
infer coexisted without comment until some time around the end of World War
I. Since then, senses 3 and 4 of infer have been frequently condemned as an
undesirable blurring of a useful distinction. The actual blurring has been
done by the commentators. Sense 3, descended from More's use of 1533, does
not occur with a personal subject. When objections arose, they were to a use
with a personal subject (now sense 4). Since dictionaries did not recognize
this use specifically, the objectors assumed that sense 3 was the one they
found illogical, even though it had been in respectable use for four
centuries. The actual usage condemned was a spoken one never used in logical
discourse. At present sense 4 is found in print chiefly in letters to the
editor and other informal prose, not in serious intellectual writing. The
controversy over sense 4 has apparently reduced the frequency of use of
sense 3.

As George Carlin would say, "There's a reason why it's the third definition.
Because it isn't first!"

:P


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