Reading | Inferring

Inferring is using prior knowledge to find out information that was not stated.

To infer people often start by identifying the image. If someone was inferring something about this image:

First, that person could start inferring by using their prior knowledge. That person may know that the fruit baskets have price tags on them. They may also observe that the fruit baskets are arranged on a table. 

By using prior knowledge, that person could then make an inference: "I infer that somebody is selling fruits".

LI: to infer information that is not stated.

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