Sentence examples for false conjecture from inspiring English sources

For example, some participants who made the two sets of doubling motions for the false conjecture about how doubling the length and width of a rectangle doubles the area actually considered the sets of motions separately, and gave an incorrect proof relating to doubling rather than quadrupling.

This would result in a false conjecture on reduced acquisition (because of completely missing episodes) and clearance (because our episode definition would create artificially long episodes) for double carriage.

The purpose of these false conjectures, which are without any basis, is to shield the terrorists and the irreconcilable radical opposition, which reject a political settlement while trying to justify possible military strikes from outside".

In his review of my book "Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator" (Dec. 12), Alonzo L. Hamby makes a series of false conjectures about my political views, based on his misreading.

Inquiry can, and hopefully does, progress towards the truth through a sequence of false conjectures and their nearly inevitable refutation, but we can also have fallible evidence of such progress.

Proving the conjecture false would have cast doubt on much of modern mathematics—and everything that depends on it.

If it found an even number that wasn't prime, it would stop and you would know the conjecture was false.

If you reach a false conclusion, then your conjecture was false.

However this conjecture is false for some obstacles.

The following easy example shows that this conjecture is false.

Although Kant's conjecture is false (quakes are usually due to plate tectonics), it is methodologically beyond reproach, employing known data (mining explosions) to formulate a testable hypothesis.