All of his technical writings display this, but so too does his unpublished manuscript reconstructing Solomon's Temple from the biblical account of it and his posthumously published Chronology of the Ancient Kingdoms in which he attempted to infer from astronomical phenomena the dating of major events in the Old Testament.
Not only must S above be justified in believing E1, S must also be justified in believing that E1 makes likely P, a proposition he would have to infer (if there are no foundations) from some other proposition F1, which he would have to infer from F2, which he would have to infer from F3, and so on ad infinitum.
But S would also need to be justified in believing that F1 does in fact make likely that E1 makes likely P, a proposition he would need to infer from some other proposition G1, which he would need to infer from some other proposition G2, and so on.
He inferred that the human mother tongue had a word, "tik," which he saw mirrored in each of the world's language superfamilies.
He inferred a long series of propositions from the negation of Euclid's Postulate, until he reached one which he pronounced "repugnant to the nature of the straight line".
He must have inferred, on the basis of his beliefs, memories, hunches (etc) about the situation in which he found himself, that it was Livingstone he ought to presume.
But the friendliness of his dealings with Egan may be inferred from a letter that he sent Egan in 1995, concerning flood damage suffered in North Korea, in which he addresses Egan informally, if imperfectly, as "Boby").
Kant (1791), as he became acquainted with Hume's thoughts, was awakened from his metaphysical slumber, or so he kept saying, and set out to solve the problem of how Newton's physics, which he thought of as eternally true, could be possible in the face of Hume's demonstration that it cannot be inferred from experience.
He then correctly inferred that he was supposed to pass on the director's instructions to the actors with hand signals, which he made up.
