Thus, at the very least, the ability to handle chunks of information as single units will make the Lakoff and Johnson situation easier. I will try again. Thus, in the domain of reading comprehension, we think of the text as containing some basic ideas and the application of inference processes gets us beyond the basic ideas to inferences. This is wrong in at least two ways. First, texts do not have any ideas in them.
Ideas can only be in heads.
Of course, once ideas are formed, logic-like processes can be used to derive various inferences, and in some circumstances this clearly occurs. 4.3 Second, because even the simplest language segment requires some sort of interpretation relative to background knowledge, the process of forming the interpretation will induce information that does not correspond to any of the words in the text. Thus, when we read a text about Sally starting her car in the garage, we don't have to infer that Sally is also in the garage. Nonetheless, the subjects did not appear to notice what is a clear anomaly. Thus we have a situation in which readers are forming a global interpretation but they do not appear to be engaging any formal, global inferencing.