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Definition of Hypotheses
1. hypothesis [n] - See also: hypothesis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypotheses
Literary usage of Hypotheses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science of Logic: An Inquiry Into the Principles of Accurate Thought and by Peter Coffey (1912)
"Our verification of such hypotheses will consist in our pointing to their superior
power of explaining facts. It is well to emphasize this point; because, ..."
2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Many hypotheses respecting the cause of the glacial period have been offered,
... Almost all hypotheses appeal to a combination of agencies, ..."
3. The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau (1897)
"I. Introduction—Progress of metaphysical hypothesis—Metaphysical hypotheses
destined to increasing diversity in details, and increasing agreement on ..."
4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Many hypotheses respecting the cause of the glacial period have been offered,
... Almost all hypotheses appeal to a combination of agencies, ..."
5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Many hypotheses respecting the cause of the glacial period have been offered,
... Almost all hypotheses appeal to a combination of agencies, ..."
6. The Methodist Review (1899)
"We speak the truth when we say it is at the demand of hypotheses that had ...
In other words, hypotheses are built upon hypotheses; and this we are told is ..."
7. Problems of Science by Federigo Enriques (1914)
"The explicit hypotheses (the postulates of a theory) which, by means of associative
relations defining the concepts themselves, express the objective ..."
8. A Text-book of Physics: Heat by John Henry Poynting, Joseph John Thomson (1906)
"As examples of hypotheses of this kind, we may instance the ... Our aim, then,
must be to frame hypotheses which shall reduce other energies to these forms, ..."