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It is a speculative, non-rigorous argument that relies on analogy or intuition, and that allows one to achieve a result or an approximation that is to be checked later with more rigor. Otherwise, the results are generally to be doubted. It is used as a hypothesis or a conjecture in an investigation,
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that reasons from the value of a method or principle that has been shown experimentally (especially through
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Brodsky, Stanley J.; Ellis, John; Karliner, Marek (1988).
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