Conjecturalism
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 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. uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From conjectural + -ism.
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