Kevin Thiele wrote:

Consider this in the real world. If I have a number of descriptions of species, and from them I want to create a genus description, then I would /collate/ the genus description from the species descriptions. /Compile/ and /aggregate/ would also work, but I think collate works better.

couldn't we call that induction? here is a definition : "Induction is the process of inference employed in "inductive logic". A mode of reasoning that starts with specific facts and concludes general hypotheses or theories"

here, species descriptions are observed fact and genus description is inducted

and this term is less general than infer

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