Book IV — Purpose

Sure 2 — The Inference

4.2.1 Inference is the engine of meaning.

4.2.2 It is thus defined: inference is the movement from given to implied.

4.2.3 It is known that the implied is never fully stated.

4.2.4 The reader completes the inference.

4.2.5 Therefore meaning is co-created.

4.2.6 The inference chain has no first link.

4.2.7 Each inference presupposes prior inference.

4.2.8 This text leaves axioms. It does not prove them.

4.2.9 Conscious ambiguity is structural generosity.

4.2.10 The answer is not given. The answer is inferred. You are the inferrer.