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Because it appears that you have included that conjecture in your definitions for the stated hypothesis about the cause of war. I don't think that supporting a hypothesis with conjecture is accepted scientific method.

No, I didn't. Scout did.
But in either event, conjectures are part of a hypothesis. And they are both part of the scientific method.

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