conjectures

Instead, they indulged in conjectures as to whether the Pope after all had a secret inclination to anti-Semitism.

Mosebach on Why the Pope Had to Do What He Did 2009

The list of such consistent conjectures is infinite.

The Memory Hole 2005

[3] Hans R.ichenbach distinguished these phases as the context of discovery vs the context of justification, e.g. in The rise of scientific philosophy (University of California Press, 1951), p. 231; and Karl R. Popper used the terms conjectures vs. refutations e.g. in Conjectures and refutations: The growth of scientific knowledge (Basic Books, 1962).

The 'Unknown Freud': Yet Another Exchange Eagle, Morris 1994

His vivid black eyes rolled volcanically, his bronzed face, handsome as it was, showed at that moment a combination of high cheekbones with set white teeth, which recalled certain American conjectures about his origin in the Southern plantations.

The Wisdom of Father Brown 1905

He conjectures from the tone and references that the writer lived in Palestine.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

She looked at her letter, wondered what it could contain, could not imagine why Mrs. Berlinton should write when they must so soon meet; and spent in conjectures upon its contents the time which Edgar besought her to bestow upon their perusal.

Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

Malala; the same, M.St. Martin conjectures, with a satrap of

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Aunt Abigail began drinking innocently out of her coffee-cup, only her laughing old eyes showing over the rim; Uncle Henry buttered a slice of bread with a grave face, as though he were deep in conjectures about who would be the next President; and as for old Shep, he made one plunge across the room, his toe-nails clicking rapidly on the bare floor, sprang up on the couch, and when Cousin Ann opened the door and came in he was lying in exactly the position in which she had left him, his paw stretched out, his head laid on it, his brown eyes turned up meekly so that the whites showed.

Understood Betsy 1917

Popper: To put it in a nutshell, our conjectures are our trial balloons, and we test them by criticizing them and by trying to replace them – by trying to show that there can be better or worse conjectures, and that they can be improved upon.

Contemporary Mythologies 2009

There is no absolute certainty associated empirical truths, called conjectures or hypotheses when the evidence is small, theories when the evidence is better, and laws when the evidence is overwhelming.

Science and Philosophy 2007