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  2. Implied author - Wikipedia

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    Distinct from the author and the narrator, the term refers to the "authorial character" that a reader infers from a text based on the way a literary work is written. In other words, the implied author is a construct, the image of the writer produced by a reader as called forth from the text.

  3. PDF - Wikipedia

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    PDF's emphasis on preserving the visual appearance of documents across different software and hardware platforms poses challenges to the conversion of PDF documents to other file formats and the targeted extraction of information, such as text, images, tables, bibliographic information, and document metadata. Numerous tools and source code ...

  4. Text inferencing - Wikipedia

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    Text inferencing describes the tacit or active process of logical induction or deduction during reading. Inferences are used to bridge current text ideas with antecedent text ideas or ideas in the reader's store of prior world knowledge. Text inferencing is an area of study within the fields of cognitive psychology and linguistics. Much of the ...

  5. Inference - Wikipedia

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    Inferences are steps in reasoning, moving from premises to logical consequences; etymologically, the word infer means to "carry forward". Inference is theoretically traditionally divided into deduction and induction, a distinction that in Europe dates at least to Aristotle (300s BCE).

  6. Subtext - Wikipedia

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    In any communication, in any medium or format, "subtext" is the underlying or implicit meaning that, while not explicitly stated, is understood by an audience.[1]The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "an underlying and often distinct theme in a conversation, piece of writing, etc.", [2] while according to Merriam-Webster, subtext is "the implicit or metaphorical meaning (as of a literary ...

  7. List of rules of inference - Wikipedia

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    A set of rules can be used to infer any valid conclusion if it is complete, while never inferring an invalid conclusion, if it is sound. A sound and complete set of rules need not include every rule in the following list, as many of the rules are redundant, and can be proven with the other rules.

  8. PDF/A - Wikipedia

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    PDF is a standard for encoding documents in an "as printed" form that is portable between systems. However, the suitability of a PDF file for archival preservation depends on options chosen when the PDF is created: most notably, whether to embed the necessary fonts for rendering the document; whether to use encryption; and whether to preserve additional information from the original document ...

  9. Material implication (rule of inference) - Wikipedia

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    Suppose we are given that .Then we have by the law of excluded middle [clarification needed] (i.e. either must be true, or must not be true).. Subsequently, since , can be replaced by in the statement, and thus it follows that (i.e. either must be true, or must not be true).