SUMMARY
Infer means to derive by reasoning, to conclude, and to guess. When we infer, we use our imagination or reasoning to provide explanation for situations in which all the facts are either not available or not yet determined.
Taking the time to find the right words to describe the obvious and abandoning inferences drawn too hastily that cannot be supported.
Reasonable inferences can be used in descriptive writing to tie facts together. Care must be taken to distinguish facts from inferences, nevertheless.
Inferences tend to build on inferences chains of association. Unless each inferences is tested for its support of evidence, a series of inferences can mislead us into flights of imagination, away from reliable knowledge.
Facts and inferences are linked together through generalizations. Facts have little significance in themselves until generalizations or laws can be derived from them.
EXERCISE P.107
Defining Infer
1.) Reasoning - That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument.
2.) Conclusion - the last main division of a discourse, usually containing a summing up of the points and a statement of opinion or decisions reached.
3.) Guess - to estimate or conjecture correctly.
4.) Explanation - a statement made to clarify something and make it understandable
5.) Imagine - To picture the imagaes in our mind by information that was giving.
6.) Infer - to bring in, to carry.
7.) Inference - the process of deriving the strict logical consequences of assumed premises.
8.) Interpret - to translate into language.
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