Sentence examples for conjecture in which from inspiring English sources

In 1964 the French social scientist Bertrand de Jouvenel published L'Art de la conjecture (The Art of Conjecture), in which he offered a systematic philosophical rationale for the field.

They all wander around in a labyrinth of ignorance and error and conjecture, in which truth is intermingled with fiction at a hundred points, in which unjustified assumptions have attained the validity of premises, and in which there is no recognized and authoritative theory to hold on to.'.

For instance, inherent in the notion of distance decay function are several conjectures about ways in which the offender forms his perceptions and engages with people around him.

He devised, but did not publish, titles for each of the movements for the Fourth Symphony; from these titles the German music critic Paul Bekker conjectured a programme in which Death appears in the Scherzo "in the friendly, legendary guise of the fiddler tempting his flock to follow him out of this world".

Most compellingly, Potter examines the provisional nature of scientific inquiry, in which conjecture can lead to insight and a weakness of a hypothesis can become a strength.

This paper presents a set of laboratory economics experiments to test Johannesson et al.'s conjecture under controlled conditions in which participants face an actual risk of financial loss.

A small amount of progress has been made on stating and proving precise versions of this conjecture.[23] One way in which strong cosmic censorship can be violated is through the emergence of acausal features.

Although hypotheses in HyBrow are fully grounded, whereas the BioDeducta example given in the present paper contains variables, this is an illusory difference; we could just as well have grounded the adaptive-gene conjecture with specific genes, in which case the BioDeducta methodology looks very similar to HyBrow's.

In this Letter we conjecture a potentially rigorous framework in which the status of de Sitter space is the same as that of a resonance in a scattering process.

Special cases were then proved, but only in 2006 was the first generally convincing proof published of the Poincaré conjecture in three dimensions, which was a major unresolved part of Thurston's geometrization conjecture.

Now there is no foundation whatever for this conjecture in any thing which we observe in the works of nature; no such experiments are going on at present: no such energy operates, as that which is here supposed, and which should be constantly pushing into existence new varieties of beings.