Conjecture
noun
An idea or guess that is based on information that is not certain or complete.
There's been a lot of conjecture about the reasons for the company's downfall.
Often appears as...
- baseless conjecture
- pure conjecture
verb
To form an idea or theory without certain or complete information.
It's not useful to conjecture about what might have happened.
Often appears as...
- conjecture about
- conjecture over
noun
An idea or guess that is based on information that is not certain or complete.
There's been a lot of conjecture about the reasons for the company's downfall.
Often appears as...
- baseless conjecture
- pure conjecture
verb
To form an idea or theory without certain or complete information.
It's not useful to conjecture about what might have happened.
Often appears as...
- conjecture about
- conjecture over
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Uncertainty Emphasis
Use 'conjecture' to emphasize the uncertainty or incompleteness of the idea.
His theory remained just a conjecture without evidence.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Facts
'Conjecture' involves predictions or explanations that are not confirmed as facts.
The scientist's conjecture on the matter intrigued everyone.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
'Conjecture' may imply a lack of reliability or seriousness in a claim.
Journalists avoided conjecture, seeking factual information.
Pro Tip 1/3Uncertainty Emphasis
Use 'conjecture' to emphasize the uncertainty or incompleteness of the idea.
His theory remained just a conjecture without evidence.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Facts
'Conjecture' involves predictions or explanations that are not confirmed as facts.
The scientist's conjecture on the matter intrigued everyone.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
'Conjecture' may imply a lack of reliability or seriousness in a claim.
Journalists avoided conjecture, seeking factual information.
Pro Tip 1/3Uncertainty Emphasis
Use 'conjecture' to emphasize the uncertainty or incompleteness of the idea.
His theory remained just a conjecture without evidence.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Facts
'Conjecture' involves predictions or explanations that are not confirmed as facts.
The scientist's conjecture on the matter intrigued everyone.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
'Conjecture' may imply a lack of reliability or seriousness in a claim.
Journalists avoided conjecture, seeking factual information.
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The amazing brains and...
This is a lot of conjecture, but it's food for thought. Now, I'd like to share with you for a moment my experience, and using my smarts and that of my colleagues, to try and get this kind of information. We're diving, we can't stay underwater forever because we can't breathe it,
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Uncovering the brain's...
This idea, called reticular theory, imagined the nervous system as a massive web of tissue that physically connected every nerve cell in the body. Reticular theory captivated the field with its elegant simplicity. But soon, a young artist would cut through this conjecture,
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Laura Schulz: The...
one of the fundamental problems of cognitive science with a single witticism. He said, "There's something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment in fact."
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The astounding athletic...
Whew! You're all thinking now, these guys are having way too much fun, and you're probably also asking yourself, why exactly are they building machine athletes? Some conjecture that the role of play in the animal kingdom
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Steven Cowley: Fusion is...
conjectured that that's why the sun shines. I've always been very worried about resource. I don't know about you, but when my mother gave me food, I always sorted the ones I disliked from the ones I liked.
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David Deutsch: A new way...
tested by observation, not derived from it. So, were testable conjectures the great innovation that opened the intellectual prison gates? No, contrary to what's usually said, testability is common
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Eduardo Sáenz de...
Well, we mathematicians devote ourselves to come up with theorems. Eternal truths. But it isn't always easy to know the difference between an eternal truth, or theorem, and a mere conjecture.
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Safari Live - Day 246 PIPE...
especially male animals may otherwise be in conflict so that's my answer dos Santos might be entirely rubbish it's all based entirely on conjecture and a bit of reading but
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How big is infinity? -...
There's more. We just pointed out that the set of decimal numbers -- that is, the real numbers -- is a bigger infinity than the set of whole numbers. Cantor wondered whether there are infinities of different sizes between these two infinities. He didn't believe there were, but couldn't prove it. Cantor's conjecture became known as the continuum hypothesis.
Video examples
It takes a community to...
that I could potentially be a terrorist spy. And whether this statement was made in jest, conjecture or just plain ignorance, the statement really hurt. It was also a side reminder that some people are going to judge me and see me as dangerous without even knowing me. Christians around the table shared they were there to protect
Video examples
The amazing brains and...
This is a lot of conjecture, but it's food for thought. Now, I'd like to share with you for a moment my experience, and using my smarts and that of my colleagues, to try and get this kind of information. We're diving, we can't stay underwater forever because we can't breathe it,
Video examples
Uncovering the brain's...
This idea, called reticular theory, imagined the nervous system as a massive web of tissue that physically connected every nerve cell in the body. Reticular theory captivated the field with its elegant simplicity. But soon, a young artist would cut through this conjecture,
Video examples
Laura Schulz: The...
one of the fundamental problems of cognitive science with a single witticism. He said, "There's something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment in fact."
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The astounding athletic...
Whew! You're all thinking now, these guys are having way too much fun, and you're probably also asking yourself, why exactly are they building machine athletes? Some conjecture that the role of play in the animal kingdom
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Steven Cowley: Fusion is...
conjectured that that's why the sun shines. I've always been very worried about resource. I don't know about you, but when my mother gave me food, I always sorted the ones I disliked from the ones I liked.
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David Deutsch: A new way...
tested by observation, not derived from it. So, were testable conjectures the great innovation that opened the intellectual prison gates? No, contrary to what's usually said, testability is common
Video examples
Eduardo Sáenz de...
Well, we mathematicians devote ourselves to come up with theorems. Eternal truths. But it isn't always easy to know the difference between an eternal truth, or theorem, and a mere conjecture.
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Safari Live - Day 246 PIPE...
especially male animals may otherwise be in conflict so that's my answer dos Santos might be entirely rubbish it's all based entirely on conjecture and a bit of reading but
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Isaac Newton
English Mathematician
If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.
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Gulzar
Indian Poet
A film carries six fine arts - it consists of architecture, painting, music, writing or literature, photography and performance. It's a conjecture of all these things and yet based on literature.
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Paul Davies
British Writer
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
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Hannes Alfven
Swedish Scientist
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
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Geoffrey West
British Physicist
Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It's a wonderfully narcissistic feeling.
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Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.
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Nigel Lawson
British Politician
However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures.
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Jonathan Raymond
American Writer
You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.
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Ruth Wilson
English Actress
People don't know what goes on in my private life, so they have to make conjecture from something that is photographed.
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William Hazlitt
English Critic
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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Isaac Newton
English Mathematician
If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.
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Gulzar
Indian Poet
A film carries six fine arts - it consists of architecture, painting, music, writing or literature, photography and performance. It's a conjecture of all these things and yet based on literature.
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Paul Davies
British Writer
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
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Hannes Alfven
Swedish Scientist
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
Quote examples
Geoffrey West
British Physicist
Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It's a wonderfully narcissistic feeling.
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Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.
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Nigel Lawson
British Politician
However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures.
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Jonathan Raymond
American Writer
You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.
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Ruth Wilson
English Actress
People don't know what goes on in my private life, so they have to make conjecture from something that is photographed.
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William Hazlitt
English Critic
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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