reinfer
English
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[edit]Verb
[edit]reinfer (third-person singular simple present reinfers, present participle reinferring, simple past and past participle reinferred)
- to infer again.
- 1882, Edmund R. Clay, The Alternative: A Study in Psychology, page 51:
- One can reinfer only on the condition of having forgotten. It is customary to speak of evidence as inferring the conclusion. This of course is figurative. What does not seem to the subject to be discovery is not inference.
- 1964, American Psychological Association, Psychological Monographs: General and Applied, page 31:
- The revision process consists of utilizing environmentally derived cues to reinfer each attribute of θ by the identification method.
- 1978, Henry S. Levinson, Science, Metaphysics, and the Chance of Salvation: An Interpretation of the Thought of William James, page 84:
- All they need do is observe that they are able to reinfer what they have already inferred about things, or as James says, repossess what they have already possessed.