• Conjectural history is a type of historiography isolated in the 1790s by Dugald Stewart, who termed it "theoretical or conjectural history," as prevalent...
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    contained a large part of what is now north-central Africa. conjectural history conjectural portrait context In archaeology, a discrete physical location...
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  • by Edward Sapir and Leonard Bloomfield. During the 18th century conjectural history, based on a mix of linguistics and anthropology, on the topic of...
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    to 1954.) Barnard, A (1988). "Kinship, language and production: a conjectural history of Khoisan social structure". Africa: Journal of the International...
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  • In oligopoly theory, conjectural variation is the belief that one firm has an idea about the way its competitors may react if it varies its output or...
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    component of its membership. Indeed, he subscribed to a version of conjectural history that placed industrial society as the culmination of human development...
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    may still be a useful element to decipher such representations with a conjectural strategy. The drawings are described by the Kiriri, in general, as huge...
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    (1986) excerpt and text search Hopfl, H. M. "From Savage to Scotsman: Conjectural History in the Scottish Enlightenment," The Journal of British Studies, Vol...
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    and Lewis by taking 6 as the average household size, which they call "conjectural" and note that other scholars have suggested averages between 5 and 7...
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    The economic history of the United States spans the colonial era through the 21st century. The initial settlements depended on agriculture and hunting/trapping...
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    eligible for the death penalty. Though Tissot's ideas are now considered conjectural at best, his treatise was presented as a scholarly, scientific work in...
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    that religious ideas already existed, but such a connection is entirely conjectural. Other evidence that some infer as indicative of religious ideas includes...
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    armed much more easily with iron weapons. All dates are approximate and conjectural, obtained through research in the fields of anthropology, archaeology...
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  • Irish. There are multiple alternative derivations of the name, some conjectural and some mythical: The commonly held view that the city takes its name...
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  • 23 October 2022. Wintroub, Michael (2020). "Sordid genealogies: a conjectural history of Cambridge Analytica's eugenic roots". Humanities and Social Sciences...
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  • (January 1979). "Kings, Titles, and Quarters: A Conjectural History of Ilesha I: The Traditions Reviewed". History in Africa. 6: 109–153. doi:10.2307/3171743...
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    question of how religion originated in human history. In the twentieth century their conjectural histories were replaced with new concerns around the question...
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    Vohra, Rohit (1996). "Early History of Ladakh: Mythic Lore % Fabulation: A preliminary note on the conjectural history of the 1st millennium A.D.". In...
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    (2007-12-01). "The decline of Spain (1500-1850): conjectural estimates". European Review of Economic History. 11 (3): 319–366. doi:10.1017/S1361491607002043...
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  • Avicenna. Their criticisms argued that the methods of astrologers were conjectural rather than empirical, and conflicted with orthodox religious views of...
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    theorem, proven in 1995 by Andrew Wiles), have shaped much of mathematical history as new areas of mathematics are developed in order to prove them. Formal...
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  • (1844). Comte believed a positivist stage would mark the final era, after conjectural theological and metaphysical phases, in the progression of human understanding...
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  • making reconstruction of the upper parts of these buildings largely conjectural. The most remarkable Neolithic structure in Western Europe is the iconic...
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  • The history of the Palace of Westminster began in the Middle Ages – in the early eighth century – when there was an Anglo-Saxon church dedicated to St...
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    Sebastiani, Silvia (2002). "Conjectural History vs. the Bible: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Historians and the Idea of History in the Encyclopaedia Britannica"...
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  • Discovery of human antiquity (category History of science)
    the recognition of the antiquity of man was the greater scope for conjectural history, in particular for all aspects of diffusionism and social evolutionism...
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  • original yet controversial work of applied ethnography and largely conjectural history". Mark Pfeifer of the Hmong Cultural and Resource Center wrote that...
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  • transmission of woodblock and movable type printing to Europe to be highly conjectural. However, French scholar Henri-Jean Martin described Koreans metal movable...
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  • German writers. Brown's work has been identified as belonging to conjectural history; he described in a 1761 letter to Garrick his stadial method of "deducing...
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    theory of L-functions has become a very substantial, and still largely conjectural, part of contemporary analytic number theory. In it, broad generalisations...
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