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Conjecture vs Subjective - What's the difference?

conjecture | subjective |

As a noun conjecture

is a statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.

As a verb conjecture

is to guess; to venture an unproven idea.

As an adjective subjective is

pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject is one who perceives or is aware; an object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of..

conjecture

English

Noun

  • (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a .
  • I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.
  • (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
  • The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.
  • (mathematics, philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally (l).
  • (obsolete) of signs and omens.
  • Synonyms

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    Verb

    (conjectur)
  • (formal) To ; to venture an unproven idea.
  • I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.
  • * South
  • Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be.

    subjective

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject'' is one who perceives or is aware; an ''object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)
  • Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, not upon observation or reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
  • Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
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  • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
  • Lacking in reality or substance.
  • As used by (Carl Jung), the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
  • (philosophy, psychology) Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
  • Antonyms

    * objective