> On 10/05/2016 06:37 AM, xorc...@sigaint.org wrote: > > "'conjecture' or 'hypothesis', both of which connote apparently true but > not self-evident statements." > > That's what you get for using dictionaries. > > English language dictionaries also conflate "Want" with "Need". > > Apparently that 'disease... that dumbing down of the English language, > has spread to technical dictionaries as well. No wonder modern > industrial output is half-baked shiny-and-soon-to-the-trashheap junk. > > Conjecture or Hypothesis ALWAY MEANT the person making the statement > believes it so. "Conjecture" is quaintly referred to on the intertubz as > "IMHO". Hypothesis would have SOME facts to back it... Usually > single-sided to suit the hypothesizer] awaiting it's 'graduation' to > 'theory, where it's tested against other facts. >
Please re-read the definitions. Yes, the person making the statement believes it to be true (i.e. apparently true, but not self-evident). One makes a hypothesis, and then tests it by experiment in order to establish it - but it is not self-evident. And note that the word 'connote' is in there, as well.