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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

reinfer en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + infer.

Meanings

  1. to infer again.
    • 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. 1978, Henry S. Levinson, Science, Metaphysics, and the Chance of Salvation: An Interpretation of the Thought of William James, page 84:
    • The revision process consists of utilizing environmentally derived cues to reinfer each attribute of θ by the identification method. 1964, American Psychological Association, Psychological Monographs: General and Applied, page 31:
    • 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. 1882, Edmund R. Clay, The Alternative: A Study in Psychology, page 51:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
reinferred Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
reinferred Tense=Past lexicographic
reinferring Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
reinfers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Translations (1)

es reargüir (Translations)