Conjecture Institute Glossary Is Live

We thought newcomers to these ideas and veterans alike could benefit from a webpage that defines, comments on, and offers examples for the words you'll see being used by our Fellows and Founders.

With every passing year, English comes to dominate more and more subcultures across the world as the language of choice. And yet, amazingly, subcultures use English in their own idiosyncratic ways, playing with words, meanings, and concepts to meet the needs in front of them. Words that mean one thing to one subculture have a subtly different meaning in another. Skateboarders have their own lingo. So do particle physicists. So do journalists.

And so do we.

The central tenet of the philosophy that Conjecture Institute spreads and applies is that all knowledge grows via conjecture and criticism. While this may sound trivial to you, taking it seriously yields profound insights across the most important areas of life and science. Indeed, this philosophy's depth and reach is one of the reasons that our Fellows span so many subjects in the first place!

As Conjecture Institute continues to support Fellows, publish books, release video projects, and host events, we thought newcomers to these ideas and veterans alike could benefit from a light webpage that defines, comments on, and offers examples for many of the words you'll see being commonly used by our Fellows and Cofounders.

We hope you have as much fun exploring the Conjecture Institute Glossary as we had writing it.