INFERENCE & DEDUCTION
We have to teach these 'reading skills' as if they are different (as though? as if? !?!?). But they aren't, really.
Anyway, today I managed to extract a definition. 'To infer' means to understand from given, but incomplete, information. 'To deduce' means to arrive at an understanding from available information.
The dictionary definition of 'Infer' contains the word 'deduce', and vice versa. Most unhelpful.
We have to teach these 'reading skills' as if they are different (as though? as if? !?!?). But they aren't, really.
Anyway, today I managed to extract a definition. 'To infer' means to understand from given, but incomplete, information. 'To deduce' means to arrive at an understanding from available information.
The dictionary definition of 'Infer' contains the word 'deduce', and vice versa. Most unhelpful.
