Hypotheses
[haɪ'pɒθɪsiːz] or [haɪ'pɑθəsiz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Hypothesis
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Examples
- The ephemeral nature of the vast majority of hypotheses and the dange r to progress of accepting an unverified assumption justify the demand for demonstrative e vidence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Yet there are some hypotheses that prima facie deserve more attention than others. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- What a plurality of hypotheses does for the scientific investigator, a plurality of stated aims may do for the instructor. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The path of scientific progress is strewn with the ruins of overthrown hypotheses. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- These may not seem pleasant hypotheses; yet, by comparison, they were welcome. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- As to the concurrence, there is only the choice left betwixt these two hypotheses. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The conjunction of this desire and aversion with love and hatred may be accounted for by two different hypotheses. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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