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inference 1. any process of reasoning from premises to a conclusion 2. Logic the specific mode of reasoning used
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| No fragments which can be identified as belonging to the first period survive to give us even a general idea of the history of the earliest epic, and we are therefore thrown back upon the evidence of analogy from other forms of literature and of inference from the two great epics which have come down to us. Again, there is a composite kind of recognition involving false inference on the part of one of the characters, as in the Odysseus Disguised as a Messenger. But if he put the inference by without a smile it was also without irritation. |
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