Sentence examples for conjectures and from inspiring English sources

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.

Preston pursues these conjectures and prospects energetically.

There's no hard evidence for the conjectures and the commentary is all "could" and "might".

It can seem plausible to view science as a succession of brave conjectures and honest refutations.

We finished off all the easy conjectures, and so no beginner could do anything.

Popper summed up the essence of "the" scientific method in the title of one of his books: Conjectures and Refutations.

Indeed, useful dialogue requires conjectures and argumentation, which in turn relies upon open minds, honest enquiry, and free speech.

Yau was convinced that Hamilton could use the Ricci-flow equation to solve the Poincaré and Thurston conjectures, and he urged him to focus on the problems.

"They will increasingly be able to test their explanations, conjectures and hypotheses by looking at the rise and fall of phrases in the scientific literature," he said.

To the Editor: Ross Douthat proposes that the conjectures and affections surrounding the legacy of President John F. Kennedy are somehow akin to cultism.

In some settings of inquiry, notably those involving universal generalizations, a naively Popperian "conjectures-and-refutations" approach of hanging on to conjectures until the evidence falsifies them does yield a reliable inductive method.