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In recent epistemology the concept of guesswork or conjecture has been much used, though seldom, if ever, analysed. Its use has taken two main forms.
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Cf. “Conicere rem aliquam est metiri illius probabilitatem”, Ars Conjectandi,IV, ii.
For those whose native language is German the thesis has perhaps an additional source of plausibility, since the same word raten means both to guess and to counsel and so some of the professional expertise associated with counselling may rub off on to the meaning of raten when a philosopher like Popper writes: “Wir wissen nicht, sondern wir raten” (Logik der Forschung,1935, p.207).
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Cohen, L.J. (2002). Guessing. In: Knowledge and Language. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 227. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2020-5_12
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