Sentence examples for erroneous conjecture from inspiring English sources

The supposed "white dodo" (or "solitaire") of Réunion is now considered an erroneous conjecture based on contemporary reports of the Réunion ibis and 17th-century paintings of white, dodo-like birds by Pieter Withoos and Pieter Holsteyn that surfaced in the 19th century.

The supposed "white dodo" of Réunion is now believed to have been an erroneous conjecture based on the few contemporary reports which described the Réunion ibis, combined with paintings of white dodos from Mauritius by the Dutch painters Pieter Withoos and Pieter Holsteyn II (and derivatives) from the 1600s that surfaced in the 19th century.

That idea is as erroneous as the frame of mind in which the Italian scholar C. Pascal founded the Paravia series of editions in order to purge Latin texts of German conjectures.

The erroneous S.& P.

This is totally erroneous.

That's conjecture.

But they are also erroneous.

Again, pure conjecture.

It happens to be erroneous.

Why? "Because it's conjecture.

But it's all conjecture.