obvious inference
collocation in Englishmeaningsofobviousandinference
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obvious
adjective
uk/ˈɒb.vi.əs/us/ˈɑːb.vi.əs/
easy to see, recognize, ...
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inference
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.fər.əns/us/ˈɪn.fɚ.əns/
a guess that you make or an opinion that you form based on the information that ...
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(Definition ofobviousandinferencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If this observation is significant, it requires an explanation, the mostobviousinferencebeing a chronological hypothesis.
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Theobviousinferencewould be that it was contemplating actual use of the organism.
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One way in which formal theories aspire to be interesting is of course by taking us from obvious axioms andobviousinferencerules to unobvious theorems.
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Theobviousinferenceis that one was answering the other.
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Theobviousinferencewas that competition did not take place in the maintenance sector.
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Theobviousinferenceis that they are to be consulted and the others are not.
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It is a veryobviousinferencethat they paid because of the pressure upon them.
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Theobviousinferenceis that the house and garden would not be included.
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Theobviousinferencewas that those persons would make unnecessary use of these facilities.
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Theobviousinferenceis that people have kept their earnings abroad and remitted only enough to pay the gas bills and the rates.
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I should not like to draw theobviousinferencefrom that.
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The rest is matter ofobviousinference.
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From that, it is anobviousinferencethat it was necessary to hold out for a very long time so that a reasonable agreement could be reached on price.
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Theobviousinferencewould be drawn, and very possibly quite wrongly, that some approach has been made and therefore the jury will be prejudiced against him.
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Theobviousinferencefrom these experiments was that each gene mutation affects the activity of a single enzyme.
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Kleene was not above drawing obvious inferences, so one can safely assume that the existence property had not occurred to him at the time.
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But it seems now that if the judge says anything at all he is almost bound to discourage the jury from drawing some very obvious inferences.
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