Hypotheses

Word HYPOTHESES
Character 10
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Pronunciations /haɪˈpɒθəˌsiːz/

Definitions and meanings of "Hypotheses"

What do we mean by hypotheses?

Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation. As a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation. Compare to theory, and quotation given there.

(general) An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.

(grammar) The antecedent of a conditional statement.

N. An amateur (non professional) who makes an assumption to prove a point. from Greek, from hupotithenai to propose, suppose, literally: put under Urban Dictionary

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The word "hypotheses" in example sentences

I use the term hypotheses, for the reason that the final determination of the points at issue was by no means identical, wherever the Qoran definitely contradicted Christian views of morality or social laws. ❋ C.H. Becker (N/A)

It's still not a particularly persuasive argument, because even if one of the hypotheses is a lot more likely than the other, it's still not impossible that the less likely hypothesis is the actual cause. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The school is, in some ways, its own worst enemy by not clearly distinguishing its scientific hypotheses from the extra-scientific inferences it draws. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Of course, one of Loewenstein's hypotheses is that people irrationally under-estimate their propensity to make irrational decisions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or an intellectual community in which openness to this scientific hypothesis, as to other scientific hypotheses, is seen as a proper aspect of a scientific approach to a question of scientific fact? ❋ Unknown (2010)

There has been progress in hypotheses forwarded by real-world people with real-world PhDs like Penrose, Hameroff and others. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The hypotheses is collapsing, so people like Al Gore and James Hansen are desperately redoubling their efforts to assert mankind is the problem. ❋ Norfolk Blogger (2009)

This is a set of hypotheses from a workshop brainstorming - the whole point is that we haven't yet studied which of these dimensions matter - we're trying to figure out ways of measuring them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of my working hypotheses is that those that are socially alienated and struggle in human interaction in the flesh and blood world act out in the elctronic world as a means of compensating for their failure to fit in in the reality based world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of the leading hypotheses is that the primordial code had to reduce errors in translation in order to provide for the efficient synthesis of functional proteins. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It would be cool to have a study to see which of our respective hypotheses is correct, Michael. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For example, the forms are sometimes described as hypotheses (see for example Phaedo). ❋ Kraut, Richard (2009)

He doesn't seem to understand the difference between comparing and evaluating competing hypotheses with respect to explaining a set of data (abductive reasoning), and just assuming that one of the proposed hypotheses is true. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At the level of historical understanding, this theoretical development served to underpin hypotheses linking the 1980s slump to a worldwide rise of real interest rates, the sharp transition to more moderate productivity growth in the European economies, and the growth of the welfare state to huge proportions, especially on the European continent. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Touching up the hypotheses is easier when I can refer to the updated statistics. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Entertaining design hypotheses is a completely different kettle of fish, because there is no evidence – none whatsoever – to indicate the presence of an intelligent designer on the planet billions of years ago. ❋ Unknown (2006)

David lacks the intuition to really pose a [plausible] [Hypothesis]. He's just a Hypothesizer; shooting [arrows] in the dark hoping one of his assumptions will stick long enough to make his point. ❋ Zafaryab (2011)

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