Definition of "conjectures" [conjectures]

• Plural form of conjecture. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conjecture. (verb)

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• "Instead, they indulged in conjectures as to whether the Pope after all had a secret inclination to anti-Semitism."
• "The list of such consistent conjectures is infinite."
• "[3] Hans R.ichenbach distinguished these phases as the context of discovery vs the context of justification, e.g. in The rise of scientific philosophy (University of California Press, 1951), p. 231; and Karl R. Popper used the terms conjectures vs. refutations e.g. in Conjectures and refutations: The growth of scientific knowledge (Basic Books, 1962)."