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Bold hypothesis
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<p>Bold hypothesis or bold conjecture is a concept in the philosophy of science of <a href="/facts/Karl_Popper/RpLqMrz5">Karl Popper</a>, first explained in his debut <i><a href="/facts/The_Logic_of_Scientific_Discovery/H1GX1YL0">The Logic of Scientific Discovery</a></i> (1935) and subsequently elaborated in writings such as <i><a href="/facts/Conjectures_and_Refutations/RpLqMrz5">Conjectures and Refutations</a>: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge</i> (1963). The concept is nowadays widely used in the <a href="/facts/Philosophy_of_science/aonsfhTY">philosophy of science</a> and in the <a href="/facts/Philosophy_of_knowledge/NsDwpcYH">philosophy of knowledge</a>. It is also used in the social and behavioural sciences. </p>