English Dictionary

conjecturalism

名詞

不可算名詞

(philosophy) 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.

日本語の意味

（哲学）反証の証拠が存在しない場合、ある命題を意図的に真であると仮定すること自体が、その命題を信じるに足る理由となるとする信念や立場。

Many philosophers debate conjecturalism, the view that deliberately supposing a proposition to be true can justify believing it when there is no evidence of its falsehood.

多くの哲学者は、ある命題が偽であるという証拠がない場合に、その命題を意図的に真だと仮定することがそれを信じる正当な理由になり得るとする推測主義について議論している。

意味（1）

(philosophy) 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.