Guessing

A guess (or an act of guessing) is a swift conclusion drawn from data directly at hand, and held as probable or tentative, while the person making the guess (the guesser) admittedly lacks material for a greater degree of certainty. A guess is also an unstable answer, as it is "always putative, fallible, open to further revision and interpretation, and validated against the horizon of possible meanings by showing that one interpretation is more probable than another in light of what we already know". In many of its uses, "the meaning of guessing is assumed as implicitly understood", and the term is therefore often used without being meticulously defined. Guessing may combine elements of deduction, induction, abduction, and the purely random selection of one choice from a set of options. Guessing may also involve the intuition of the guesser, who may have a "gut feeling" about which answer is correct without necessarily being able to articulate a reason for having this feeling.

Gradations of guessing

Güssing District

The Bezirk Güssing (Croatian: Kotar Novi Grad) is an administrative district (Bezirk) in the federal state of Burgenland, Austria, bordering on Vas Megye (County) Hungary, of which it had been a part prior to 1921.

Area of the district is 486.71 km², with a population of 26,636 (2012), and population density 55 persons per km². Administrative center of the district is Güssing.

Administrative divisions

The district consists of the below municipalities and towns, the former Hungarian names of some of which are given in parentheses:

Güssing

Güssing (Hungarian: Németújvár, Német-Újvár, Croatian: Novi Grad) is a town in Burgenland, Austria. It is located at 47°4′N 16°19′E / 47.067°N 16.317°E / 47.067; 16.317, with a population of 3,811 (2011), and is the administrative center of the Güssing district.

Overview

The Güssing Castle, built in 1157, is the oldest castle in Burgenland and a regional landmark.

The lords of Güssing (in Hungarian: Kőszeg, in Slovak: Kysak) were a noble family in the frontier region of Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary. Note that Kőszeg is the name of a nearby Hungarian town (known as Güns in German) to which that family moved its residence from Güssing in 1274. In 1522, it became the residence of the Batthyány family, one of the most distinguished Magnate families in Hungary.

Notable people