Conjecture vs Generalize - What's the difference?
conjecture | generalize |
(formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a .
(formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
(mathematics, philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally (l).
(obsolete) of signs and omens.
(formal) To ; to venture an unproven idea.
* South
To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
* W. Nicholson
To spread throughout the body and become systemic.
To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.
* Coleridge
As verbs the difference between conjecture and generalize
is that conjecture is to guess; to venture an unproven idea while generalize is to speak in generalities, or in vague terms.As a noun conjecture
is a statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.conjecture
English
Noun
- I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.
- The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.
Synonyms
* * See alsoVerb
(conjectur)- I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.
- Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be.
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Alternative forms
* generalise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(en-verb)- Copernicus generalized' the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton ' generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.
- A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts.