conjecturalism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.

Word forms

conjecturalism

Etymology

From conjectural + -ism.

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