「思う」「考える」のボキャブラリー [整理1] INFER / DEDUCE / CONCLUDE / JUDGE / GATHER
今日は「結論づける」という意味の類語を整理してみたいと思います。
INFER, DEDUCE, CONCLUDE, JUDGE, GATHER mean to arrive at a mental conclusion. INFER implies arriving at a conclusion by reasoning from evidence; if the evidence is slight, the term comes close to surmise. DEDUCE often adds to INFER the special implication of drawing a particular inference from a generalization. CONCLUDE implies arriving at a necessary inference at the end of a chain of reasoning . JUDGE stresses a weighing of the evidence on which a conclusion is based . GATHER suggests an intuitive forming of a conclusion from implications.
★infer:証拠から推論することで結論に達する。証拠が少ない場合には、surmise(to form a notion of from scanty evidence)に近くなる。
★deduce:inferに特別なニュアンスが加わる。つまり、一般論から特定の推論を導き出す。
★conclude:一連の推理の果てに必然的な推論を導く
★judge:結論の基盤となる証拠の重要性を強調する
★gather:ことばの裏(implications)から直観により結論付けることを示唆
(Merriam Webster’s Collegiate)