premise: It is as if you looked up , say , infer/imply in a usage manual and the author 's treatment , in place of an explanation and sound advice , were an unpleasant diatribe against anyone so dense and rude as to have had to look up the entry to begin with .
hypothesis: It 's as if the author replaced the explanation for infer/imply with their own rant against anyone who would dare to look it up in the first place and true is true .