hypothesis

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hypotheses

1.
(sciences) A tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem and that can be tested by further observation, investigation, or experimentation.
Far too many of us have been taught in school that a scientist, in the course of trying to figure something out, will first come up with a "hypothesis" (a guess or surmise—not necessarily even an "educated" guess). ... [But t]he word "hypothesis" should be used, in science, exclusively for a reasoned, sensible, knowledge-informed explanation for why some phenomenon exists or occurs. An hypothesis can be as yet untested; can have already been tested; may have been falsified; may have not yet been falsified, although tested; or may have been tested in a myriad of ways countless times without being falsified; and it may come to be universally accepted by the scientific community. An understanding of the word "hypothesis," as used in science, requires a grasp of the principles underlying Occam's Razor and Karl Popper's thought in regard to "falsifiability"—including the notion that any respectable scientific hypothesis must, in principle, be "capable of" being proven wrong (if it should, in fact, just happen to be wrong), but none can ever be proved to be true. One aspect of a proper understanding of the word "hypothesis," as used in science, is that only a vanishingly small percentage of hypotheses could ever potentially become a theory.
2.
(general)An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
Đồng nghĩa: educated guess, guess, supposition, conjecture, thesis, theory[Appendix:Glossary, assumption, conjecture, educated guess, foreguess, given, guess, guesstimate, hunch, hypothesis, inference, overhope, posit, possibility, postulation, presumption, reckoning, speculation, supposition, surmise, suspicion, theory, working hypothesis
3.
(grammar) The antecedent of a conditional statement.

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educated guessguess supposition conjecture thesis assumptionforeguessgivenguesstimatehunch inference overhope posit possibility postulation presumption reckoning speculation surmise suspicion

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ine-pro Recorded since 1596, from Middle French hypothese, from hypothesis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόθεσις (base, basis of an argument, supposition), itself from ὑποτίθημι (to set before, suggest), from ὑπό (below) + τίθημι (to put, place). Compare hypothec.