Text inferencing describes the tacit or active process of logical induction or deduction during reading.
Text inferencing is an area of study within the fields of cognitive psychology and linguistics.
Consider the following sentence:[2] "The director and the cameraman were ready to shoot closeups when suddenly the actress fell from the 14th story."
Predictive inferences are not made as reliably and not last as long in memory as other types of inferences,[3] and are largely based on the amount of biasing context provided by nearby text ideas [4] Backward inferences require the reader to bridge the current text idea to one that occurred earlier in the text.
Backward inferences can be either logical, in that the reader assumes one occurrence based on the statement of another, or pragmatic, in that the inference helps the reader comprehend the story coherently, like in the previous example.