inferable

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Thus we have here a connection of two propositions, which does not depend upon whether they are to be asserted or denied, but only upon the second being inferable from the first.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand

The necessities for a nutritive system, a respiratory system, and a vascular system, in all animals of size and vivacity, seem to us legitimately inferable from the conditions to continued vital activity.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

The height of the lower vase is about five feet, which is inferable by our standing by it, and looking over the rim into the limpid basin.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Burke does not allow that a sufficient argument ad hominem is inferable from these premises.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

It is fairly inferable, from Lord Byron’s own statements, that his family friends believed this charge. 

From Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Stowe, Harriet Beecher