Sentence examples for plausible conjectures from inspiring English sources

A. Some of the factors that lure mosquitoes are well known, like carbon dioxide emissions, body heat and moisture, and there have been many plausible conjectures about variables that a sufferer might be able to control, like avoiding perfume and possibly even adopting a vegetarian diet.

How zebras got their stripes Michael Lemonick | New Yorker | 11 April 2014 An obvious question for students of evolution to ask; hard to answer – not because plausible conjectures are lacking, but because there are too many.

Averill 1992, 2005, for example, presents some interesting arguments, which are based on plausible conjectures about how normal observers and standard conditions might easily enough change, with consequent metameric change.

Due to the fact that the results of this study are qualitative rather than quantitative, the conclusions must be considered as highly plausible conjectures, which have to be experimentally tested.

To retell this history, Carroll persuasively takes the reader through much that he acknowledges is plausible conjecture, informed theory and reconstructed history.

We know so little about this painter that writers assume a licence to stray from even plausible conjecture into pure fiction.

Because nobody knows how such an AI might be built, Mr Bostrom is forced to spend much of the book discussing speculations built upon plausible conjecture.

The somewhat overwhelming effect of a Fuller monologue is well known today in many parts of the world, and while his claim to Maori ancestry must remain open to question, even that seems an oddly plausible conjecture.

Is this a plausible conjecture for the data we have just considered?

Newton hoped to analyze the dynamical interactions that hold the solar system together; he wanted to show that his dynamical account, and the view of "the frame of the system of the world" that emerges from it, is a matter of "reasoning from phenomena" rather than of plausible conjecture.

An equally plausible conjecture is that advanced students spend more time because they are more engaged in the process of discussion, more engaged in the material, and/or simply have more practice and comfort engaging in the process of argumentation.