conjecturalism
conjecturalism noun: the belief that intentionally supposing that a proposition is true is a good reason to believe that proposition in the absence of evidence of its falsehood.
Noun
conjecturalism (uncountable)
- The belief that intentionally supposing that a proposition is true is a good reason to believe that proposition in the absence of evidence of its falsehood.
- If conjecturalism in a suitably strengthened form is to succeed where its original Popperian version fails, one major aim of the book under review is, as one might put it, to defeat rationality-scepticism.1985, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, page 142
- Extreme conjecturalism is inevitably accompanied by Pyrrhonism. Against conjecturalism and Pyrrhonism there is only the old remedy: the cautious and methodical examination of documents with all the skills that were developed in the collaboration of antiquaries and textual critics in the seventeenth...Quoted in 2007, Peter N. Miller, Momigliano and Antiquarianism: Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences (page 339)
Origin of conjecturalism
From conjectural + -ism.
Questions about conjecturalism
- What does conjecturalism mean?
- Conjecturalism means the belief that intentionally supposing that a proposition is true is a good reason to believe that proposition in the absence of evidence of its falsehood.
- What part of speech is conjecturalism?
- Conjecturalism is a noun.
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