 Creative Inference. Creative inference also seems problematic for the meaning holist. One could rehearse the inferential relations between things one already believed, but one couldn’t validly draw new conclusions, since if the conclusion of the inference is something that one didn’t believe already, then the terms in that conclusion will mean something different than what the seemingly identical terms meant in the premises, making the inference  invalid.[18]  (The inference could, of course, later be recapitulated as a valid one, since at that point the meaning of the terms in the premises would have changed as well, but this is just to say that the recapitulation doesn’t capture the transitions that were actually going on when the inference was first taking place.)