Noun
working hypothesis (plural working hypotheses)
A hypothesis that is unverified yet tentatively chosen as a best guess to build upon or put effort into its verification.
As Lorentz later noted (1921, 1928), he considered the time indicated by clocks resting in the aether as "true" time, while local time was seen by him as a heuristic working hypothesis and a mathematical artifice. Source: Internet
Economist Paul Krugman wrote in 2014 that "the best working hypothesis seems to be that the financial crisis was only one manifestation of a broader problem of excessive debt--that it was a so-called "balance sheet recession." Source: Internet
Be flexible with your working hypothesis and make sure that the evidence remains the primary driver rather than the other way around. Source: Internet
But the best working hypothesis by far is that they are fake and I see no reason to keep agonizing over the remote possibility that they are ancient productions. Source: Internet
Post 1936 in Davis 1965:291 footnote 8 Rather, he regarded the notion of "effective calculability" as merely a "working hypothesis" that might lead by inductive reasoning to a " natural law " rather than by "a definition or an axiom". Source: Internet
This has been the working hypothesis for most twentieth-century deciphering attempts, including an informal team of NSA cryptographers led by William F. Friedman in the early 1950s. Source: Internet