Friday's English Language Lesson #1

[ajva]

The word "infer" should generally be used to mean "deduce" or "conclude by reasoning from evidence". It may sometimes be used to mean "imply". However, this latter usage is, as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it, not universally accepted, and in fact if you use it like this in my presence you are likely to get a frying pan round the head.




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Comments

Re: nothing to do with this entry

[ajva.livejournal.com]

Why assume that I'm not moral? A lot of religious people think that you have to be religious to want to be moral; it's as if we're all nasty selfish people who would be horrible to each other all the time unless there's a parent-like God standing over us threatening us with punishment.

In fact, most atheists I know try to do the right thing simply because it's the right thing to do. You don't need to be religious to be moral.