What are the four types of uses a speaker can make of the inference from cause?

What will be an ideal response?


- Prediction: some causal inferences explain changes by predicting what leads to what.
- Assignment or responsibility: causal inferences can tell why something occurred.
- Explanation: causal inference can be used to explain something that doesn't make sense.
- Steps to a goal: a causal inference can relate the means to the ends, such as when the speaker knows the goal and wants to figure out the best way to get to it.

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