on we are dealing with and accurate. Understanding our own point of view and considering other viewpoints is a must to learning intellectual skills. Two important ways to accomplish this is learning to distinguish inferences from assumption. However, many confuse the two (Elder and Paul 34).
             Inference is a step of the mind, an intellectual act, by which one concludes that something is true in light of something else being true, or seeming to be true. It can be accurate or inaccurate, logical or illogical, justified or unjustified. An assumption is something we take for granted or ass
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