While we infer that Tweety flies on the basis of the information that Tweety is a bird and the background knowledge that birds usually fly, we have good reasons to retract this inference when learning that Tweety is a penguin or a kiwi.
Further, while we infer mule-like to be a single gene, our results showing extensive interactions among closely linked loci leading to sterility may apply to homozygous introgressions as well.
While in mixed vegetation we inferred an increase in extinction rates there was an decrease in extinction rates in lineages inhabiting the forest.
We don't learn how to recognize the symptoms of child abuse (that term is not even mentioned), and while we can infer that "breaking the silence" is generally a good thing, Konigsburg is more concerned with showing us that silence has a language of its own.
While we cannot infer detailed function of these expanded paralog families, similar gene clusters from other species suggest role in host-parasite interaction.
Also, while we can infer some exposure information by the age of the seropositive subject, the precision of this association is poor.
While we can infer magnetoencephalography differences at different levels of disease severity in our group, further work is required to know whether magnetoencephalography changes progress within individuals during the course of their disease.
While we cannot infer that functional copies of Diaspora still exist in the G. max genome, the density of the contig assembly and the presence of a strongly conserved consensus nucleotide at virtually every position of the assembly supports the argument that a reasonable facsimile of a past functional element is depicted.
While we cannot infer the ancestral phenotype for posterior lobes (because the morphology of this structure has evolved in all three species of the D. simulans clade), it is likely that the anal plate size of D. mauritiana is derived (because D. simulans and D. sechellia have very similar anal plates), and therefore the causative genes in these regions must have evolved in D. mauritiana.
As to (2), Reid thinks that nobody who has absorbed Hume's lessons regarding causation would think that we can avoid skepticism about the external world while insisting that we infer its nature from the features of directly perceived ideas.
