conjecturalism

== English == === Etymology === From conjectural +‎ -ism. === Noun === conjecturalism (uncountable) (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. Quoted in 2007, Peter N. Miller, Momigliano and Antiquarianism: Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences (page 339) Extreme conjecturalism is inevitably accompanied by Pyrrhonism. Against conjecturalism and Pyrrhonism there is only the old remedy: the cautious and methodical examination of documents with all the skills that were developed in the collaboration of antiquaries and textual critics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.