{"id":85,"date":"2015-07-21T18:59:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T18:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/styleforstudents\/?post_type=chapter&p=85"},"modified":"2015-07-21T18:59:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T18:59:31","slug":"imply-infer","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-styleforstudents-1\/chapter\/imply-infer\/","title":{"raw":"Imply \/ Infer","rendered":"Imply \/ Infer"},"content":{"raw":"
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\r\n\r\nThese two words are too often used interchangeably, but they are completely different in meaning. \u201cImply\u201d means to suggest or to indicate; \u201cinfer\u201d involves a person actively applying deduction:\r\n
Water droplets accumulating on the outside of a cold glass of water can imply a hot humid day.\r\n\r\nWe can infer that Stonehenge was an early calendar.<\/blockquote>\r\nAnother way to look at it: We can substitute \"suggest\" for \"imply\" and \"reason\" for \"infer,\" still retaining the correct meaning.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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These two words are too often used interchangeably, but they are completely different in meaning. \u201cImply\u201d means to suggest or to indicate; \u201cinfer\u201d involves a person actively applying deduction:<\/p>\n

Water droplets accumulating on the outside of a cold glass of water can imply a hot humid day.<\/p>\n

We can infer that Stonehenge was an early calendar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another way to look at it: We can substitute “suggest” for “imply” and “reason” for “infer,” still retaining the correct meaning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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