The effect can also be exploited for general inference and estimation.
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It gives information in a context whereby the reader can make general inferences.
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That is, general inference patterns, such as implication ( " if . . . then " inferences ), or disjunction ( " either . . . or " inferences ), are constructed by mapping domain-specific inference patterns onto each other through the hypercognitive process of metarepresentation.
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Birks resigned the vicarage of Trinity in 1877, and in the same year published a volume on " Manuscript Evidence in the Text of the New Testament ", which was an endeavour to bring " mathematical reasoning to bear on the probable value of the manuscripts of different ages, with a general inference in favour of the high value of the cursive manuscripts as a class ".