Meanings of infer the existence in English

We may thence infer the existence of a settled civilization and of some sort of literary productiveness.

It is therefore by EXPERIENCE only, that we can infer the existence of one object from that of another.

Thus this light is the vibration of that ethereal matter, and from this vibration we infer the existence of ether.

Science is simply a body of facts which lead people familiar with them to infer the existence of certain laws.

That we may validly infer the existence of God from necessary existence being comprised in the concept we have of him.

But what I mean is: can we, according to Paley, infer the existence and character of God from anything we see?

Still, the evidence was indirect, based on measurements of orbits that allowed Hulse and Taylor to infer the existence of gravitational waves.

But it's another thing to use hypersensitive Doppler measurements of the star's motion to infer the existence of planets in orbit around them.

But if we make a jump, say to the tunicate mollusks, we see no reason there to infer the existence of consciousness at all.

These persistent punishments fatigued me; they also caused me to infer the existence of a culprit, somewhere; so I hid myself and watched the gate.

Without any farther ceremony, we call the one cause and the other effect, and infer the existence of the one from that of the other.

From the phylogenetic distribution of these families, we infer the existence of an ancestral protein kinase(s) prior to the divergence of eukaryotes, bacteria, and archaea.

From these reports, we inferred the existence of a prostate-thyroid axis.

He immediately infers the existence of one object from the appearance of the other.

Like logically inferring the existence of a new planet and then discovering it with the telescope.

"My dear fellow," he explained to me the first time I asked, "how did Madame Curie infer the existence of radioactivity in radium-bearing ores?