Reinfer

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    to infer again.

    "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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From re- + infer.

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