Another word for guessing
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- A piece of testimony that is not usually admissible when given by a layperson, as in contrast to an opinion given by an expert witness.
- A judgment or estimation of the merit of a person or thing:
- A judgment based on special knowledge and given by an expert:
- The formation of theories.
- Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
- The act or process of surmising; conjecture in general
- An idea or opinion formed from evidence that is neither positive nor conclusive; conjecture; guess
- The act of one who reckons; count or computation
- A measuring of possibilities for the future; calculated guess
- The act or process of calculating the position of a ship or an aircraft.
- A state of being predisposed; a tendency, inclination, or susceptibility.
- The condition of being predisposed; inclination or tendency; predilection
- A ground or reason for presuming; evidence that points to the probability of something
- (Law) The inference that a fact exists, based on the proved existence of other facts
- (Law) A conclusion applied by law as to the correctness of some fact, ordinarily subject to rebuttal by contrary evidence.
- A conclusion reached by this process.
- The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
- (Logic) The process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises; inference by reasoning from the general to the specific.
- The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true.
- The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
- A conclusion or opinion arrived at by inferring
- The sport or pursuit, such as boxing, engaging the interest of such a group.
- The enthusiasts or fans of a sport or pursuit considered as a group.
- The mental faculty through which whims, visions, and fantasies are summoned up; imagination, especially of a whimsical or fantastic nature.
- A foolish notion; empty fancy
- The ability to understand and appreciate imaginative creations of others, esp. works of art and literature
- The ability to form mental images of things that are not present to the senses or not considered to be real:
- Something supposed; assumption; hypothesis
- The act of supposing
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