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Inference vs Deixis - What's the difference?

inference | deixis |

As nouns the difference between inference and deixis

is that inference is inference while deixis is (reference requiring context to be understood).

inference

English

(wikipedia inference)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
  • (countable) That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.

    • Derived terms

    * deductive inference * inductive inference * statistical inference

    deixis

    English

    Noun

    (deixes)
  • (linguistics) A reference within a sentence that relies on the context being known to interpret correctly.
    • The use of pronouns relies on a deixis to correctly interpret them.

    Synonyms

    * indexicality

    Hypernyms

    * exophora

    Antonyms

    * (with regards to type of information needed to understand a reference ): homophora

    Related terms

    * deictic * deictically * deictical

    References

    * http://www.sil.org/linguistics/glossaryoflinguisticterms/WhatIsDeixis.htm

    Anagrams

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