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be conjectural
adjective
In the nature of a conjecture, or based on a conjecture.
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Here is Phillips on how psychoanalysis must always be conjectural: "The only thing the analyst can't afford to do... is to have too much of a sense that she knows what she is doing".
In regard to an attempt to recover the original text of a biblical passage especially an unintelligible one in the light of variants among different versions and manuscripts and known causes of corruption, it should be understood that all reconstruction must necessarily be conjectural and perforce tentative because of the irretrievable loss of the original edition.
Since we cannot know how the economy would have evolved under alternative monetary policies, any answer to this question must be conjectural.
The cardinal's sight of the pope has to be conjectural because anything extended can show, as it were, but one side of itself to another embodied viewer.
Prior to 1989 there are no reliable population-based data on HIV or sexual behaviors in Uganda, so the evolution of the epidemic and risk behaviors must be conjectural.
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Nicholas only considers "true" conjectures and believes that our conceptual and judgmental knowledge is conjectural or provisional because human reason never grasps the essence of anything precisely as it is.
Elements of these performances were conjectural.
Appendix 3. Were Conjectural Histories Racist?
Some of what Mr. Savall offered was conjectural.
The composer "owned it, but its sound is conjectural".
The source of each name in the Chinese system is conjectural.
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