0 a guess about something based on how it seems and not on proof: --
1 to guess, based on the appearance of a situation and not on proof: --
2 an opinion or judgment that is not based on proof; a guess: --
Different fields of environmental policy can be used to test the various conjectures made in this article.
We conjectured two states of fiscal policy: a crash diet and a permanent weight loss.
A cause that is conjectured ought to be such, that, if it really does exist, it will produce the effect.
On the basis of the articles contained in this issue, one may hesitantly advance some conjectures about causes of scientific style.
Nonetheless, we see three conjectures explaining why the code is more compact and more elegant.
Adoption of new terms, structured to invoke such (conjectured) forward movement, mandated remaining in the speculative realm of hypotheses.
Several remarks throughout the text and in the concluding 8 address open problems and related conjectures.
However, the "evidence" behind his conjectures proves to be quite thin upon careful examination.