"unjustified inference" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "The researcher made an unjustified inference from the data that contradicted the study's hypothesis".
Ms. Seligman described this as an unjustified inference, based not upon anything the President or Ms. Lewinsky said in the pivotal telephone call of Dec. 17, 1997, when he and Ms. Lewinsky described her possible testimony in the Jones case, but on flimsy supposition by the prosecution.
For example, it is an "unjustified inference" that a weakened Gulf Stream implies less heat being transported northward, leading to a colder Europe.
To be perfectly relevant, we would need to add to this argument the lemma that if one makes an unjustified inference, the conclusion of that inference has low epistemic probability.
For example, while communication understood by a biologist in terms of ultimate function is nothing more than an adaptive process of information exchange between two individuals that does not require cognition, the use of the term to describe a behavior may have Gricean implications to others, which in turn can lead to unjustified inferences about the about mechanism.
22. 2 The dissent, perhaps finding unappealing the Government's defense of unjustified taking, tenders factual inferences, post, at 5, both unfavorable to Williams and beyond the parties' stipulation of uncontroverted facts.
For example, if Hume's skepticism about causation undermines this principle, Reid says that many everyday inferences would become unjustified (EIP 6.6, 497 8).
In certifying the class action, Judge Scheindlin said that the police policy has led to "large numbers of apparently unjustified trespass arrests," and testimony presented thus far supported the inference that many of the Housing Authority's black or Hispanic residents had been "impeded in coming and going freely from their homes and having guests".
But when the Government uses the net worth method, and the books and records of the taxpayer appear correct on their face, an inference of willfulness from net worth increases alone might be unjustified, especially where the circumstances surrounding the deficiency are as consistent with innocent mistake as with willful violation.
Even when officials make correct judgments about which acts to excuse, citizens may draw mistaken inferences, and restraints of deterrence and norm acceptance may be weakened for unjustified acts that resemble justified ones (Greenawalt, 1987, 273).
Balakrishnan and Ashby questioned the basis of the initial inference of two mechanisms from the performance data by demonstrating that a bilinear fit is unjustified and a continuous model of enumeration is equally supported by the performance data [12], [13].
If this is right, then we ought to worry that own inferences about the content of our implicit attitudes from our behavior are likely to be unjustified.
