There should be a conjecture complement to emendation. In scholarly editing an "emendation" is a correction of a faulty reading according to some other source while a "conjecture" is the editor's assumption based on his experience/taste/discretion but that can't be justified by another source.
There should be a
conjecture
complement toemendation
. In scholarly editing an "emendation" is a correction of a faulty reading according to some other source while a "conjecture" is the editor's assumption based on his experience/taste/discretion but that can't be justified by another source.