Saturday, March 6, 2010
Inferring and Implying
In chapter four of the epstein book, there was a certain section that i found a little interesting. It can be found on page seventy four and it is about inferring and implying. Before i read this section, i thought i knew what both those things were and i guess i did in a way but this section made me look at them in a different way and helped me get a much bettter understanding of what they mean. So this is how the book explains it. " When someone leaves a conclusion unsaid, he or she is implying the conclusion. When you decide that an unstated claim is the conclusion, you are inferring the claim". I think that is a very good explanation and it definitely helped me. This section was overall very helpful with all its examples of different ways to tell what someone was implying and what someone was inferring. It simply just made it cleaer for me
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I like how you wrote about this topic. Inferring and implying is an important section. I also found that this section made me understand the subject of discussion much easier. I definitely had the same understanding as you did before reading the section, and reading it also made me recognize the difference between inferring and implying. It's more of implied by the speaker, and inferred by the audience. That's another easy explanation of the section for me. Don't know if that further explanation helped you understand the difference better. That's just something I add to the section to further describe it.
ReplyDeleteThis post was very informative and helpful to me on many levels. There was actually a two questions on the quiz that asked about implying and inferring. I remembered back to this post when I was taking the test and glad that I read your post before doing the quiz. I think knowing what implying and inferring is very useful to know. The book was fairly straight forward with the definitions and differentiating between what inferring and implying meant. I just am very glad that I read your post before taking the quiz because it helped me with those two specific questions.
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