hypotheses

Noun

The word is derived from hypothesis

Meaning

of Hypothesis

Examples

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch. Novalis

The number of rational hypotheses that can explain any given phenomenon is infinite. Robert M. Pirsig

Hypotheses are what we lack the least. Henri Poincaré

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create. Ian Hacking

The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know. Jerry Fodor

We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics. Josiah Willard Gibbs

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