All 3 Uses of
hypothesis
in
Middlemarch
- "...another man, who may flatter himself that he has a hold on her regard, might succeed in winning that firm place in her love as well as respect which you had let slip. ..."
... He had a horrible conviction that behind all this hypothetic statement there was a knowledge of some actual change in Mary's feeling.Chpt 7hypothetic = possible or potential
- He really believed in the spiritual advantages, and meant that his life henceforth should be the more devoted because of those later sins which he represented to himself as hypothetic, praying hypothetically for their pardon:—"if I have herein transgressed."
Chpt 7 *hypothetic = possibly real, but not known for sure to be real
- He really believed in the spiritual advantages, and meant that his life henceforth should be the more devoted because of those later sins which he represented to himself as hypothetic, praying hypothetically for their pardon:—"if I have herein transgressed."†
Chpt 7
Definitions:
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(1)
(hypothesis as in: a study to test her hypothesis) a seemingly reasonable, but unproven idea or explanation based upon known factsIn casual conversation, theory is a synonym for hypothesis, but a scientist would say that a hypothesis needs to pass rigorous tests before it could be accepted as a theory.
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(2)
(hypothesis as in: assume as a working hypothesis) something that may or may not be true, but is temporarily treated as true to advance a discussion or to further investigationThis sense of hypothesis is typically seen in the form, hypothetical, or hypothetically.