All 50 Uses
hypothesis
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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- Such a student, the demonstrator hypothesized, would go to his first class, get his first assignment and probably do it out of habit.
Part 3 *hypothesized = proposed a seemingly reasonable, but unproven, ideastandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- Poincaré then hypothesized that this selection is made by what he called the "subliminal self," an entity that corresponds exactly with what Phaedrus called preintellectual awareness.
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- The logical statements entered into the notebook are broken down into six categories: (1) statement of the problem, (2) hypotheses as to the cause of the problem, (3) experiments designed to test each hypothesis, (4) predicted results of the experiments, (5) observed results of the experiments and (6) conclusions from the results of the experiments.†
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- The logical statements entered into the notebook are broken down into six categories: (1) statement of the problem, (2) hypotheses as to the cause of the problem, (3) experiments designed to test each hypothesis, (4) predicted results of the experiments, (5) observed results of the experiments and (6) conclusions from the results of the experiments.†
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- What you should state is "Solve Problem: What is wrong with cycle?" and then state as the first entry of Part Two: "Hypothesis Number One: The trouble is in the electrical system."†
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- You think of as many hypotheses as you can, then you design experiments to test them to see which are true and which are false.†
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- He is testing a hypothesis by putting the question to nature.†
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- An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.†
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- Skill at this point consists of using experiments that test only the hypothesis in question, nothing less, nothing more.†
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- He has proved that his hypothesis is correct.†
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- He then sets up hypotheses for these and tests them.†
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- If Phaedrus had entered science for ambitious or utilitarian purposes it might never have occurred to him to ask questions about the nature of a scientific hypothesis as an entity in itself.†
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- The formation of hypotheses is the most mysterious of all the categories of scientific method.†
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- Until it's tested the hypothesis isn't truth.†
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- Nature provides the hypotheses.†
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- A lesser mind might then have said, "Well then, man provides the hypotheses."†
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- Phaedrus' break occurred when, as a result of laboratory experience, he became interested in hypotheses as entities in themselves.†
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- He had noticed again and again in his lab work that what might seem to be the hardest part of scientific work, thinking up the hypotheses, was invariably the easiest.†
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- As he was testing hypothesis number one by experimental method a flood of other hypotheses would come to mind, and as he was testing these, some more came to mind, and as he was testing these, still more came to mind until it became painfully evident that as he continued testing hypotheses and eliminating them or confirming them their number did not decrease.†
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- As he was testing hypothesis number one by experimental method a flood of other hypotheses would come to mind, and as he was testing these, some more came to mind, and as he was testing these, still more came to mind until it became painfully evident that as he continued testing hypotheses and eliminating them or confirming them their number did not decrease.†
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- As he was testing hypothesis number one by experimental method a flood of other hypotheses would come to mind, and as he was testing these, some more came to mind, and as he was testing these, still more came to mind until it became painfully evident that as he continued testing hypotheses and eliminating them or confirming them their number did not decrease.†
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- He coined a law intended to have the humor of a Parkinson's law that "The number of rational hypotheses that can explain any given phenomenon is infinite.†
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- It pleased him never to run out of hypotheses.†
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- Even when his experimental work seemed dead-end in every conceivable way, he knew that if he just sat down and muddled about it long enough, sure enough, another hypothesis would come along.†
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- If the purpose of scientific method is to select from among a multitude of hypotheses, and if the number of hypotheses grows faster than experimental method can handle, then it is clear that all hypotheses can never be tested.†
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- If the purpose of scientific method is to select from among a multitude of hypotheses, and if the number of hypotheses grows faster than experimental method can handle, then it is clear that all hypotheses can never be tested.†
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- If the purpose of scientific method is to select from among a multitude of hypotheses, and if the number of hypotheses grows faster than experimental method can handle, then it is clear that all hypotheses can never be tested.†
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- If all hypotheses cannot be tested, then the results of any experiment are inconclusive and the entire scientific method falls short of its goal of establishing proven knowledge.†
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- What shortens the life-span of the existing truth is the volume of hypotheses offered to replace it; the more the hypotheses, the shorter the time span of the truth.†
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- What shortens the life-span of the existing truth is the volume of hypotheses offered to replace it; the more the hypotheses, the shorter the time span of the truth.†
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- And what seems to be causing the number of hypotheses to grow in recent decades seems to be nothing other than scientific method itself.†
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- The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths.†
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- Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple, indeterminate, relative ones.†
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- The questions he had asked about infinite hypotheses hadn't been of interest to science because they weren't scientific questions.†
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- One can see how both the informal and formal processes of hypothesis, experiment, conclusion, century after century, repeated with new material, have built up the hierarchies of thought which have eliminated most of the enemies of primitive man.†
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- Hume's motorcycle, the one that makes no sense at all, will occur if our previous hypothetical bed patient, the one who has no senses at all, is suddenly, for one second only, exposed to the sense data of a motorcycle, then deprived of his senses again.†
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- For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.†
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- The hypothetical student, still a mule, would drift around for a while.†
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- From these hypotheses he deduces a series of theorems among which it's impossible to find any contradiction, and he constructs a geometry whose faultless logic is inferior in nothing to that of the Euclidian geometry.†
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- The same is true of hypotheses.†
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- Which hypotheses?†
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- His judgment that the scientist selects facts, hypotheses and axioms on the basis of harmony, also left the rough serrated edge of a puzzle incomplete.†
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- What you need is an hypothesis for how you're going to get that slotless screw out of there and scientific method doesn't provide any of these hypotheses.†
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- What you need is an hypothesis for how you're going to get that slotless screw out of there and scientific method doesn't provide any of these hypotheses.†
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- You need some ideas, some hypotheses.†
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- Traditional scientific method, unfortunately, has never quite gotten around to say exactly where to pick up more of these hypotheses.†
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- These correlations are clues for cause-and-effect hypotheses.†
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- Yes or no confirms or denies a hypothesis.†
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- Mu says the answer is beyond the hypothesis.†
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- Then, however, he noticed that some of the articles were written for audiences that couldn't possibly have this background, and this hypothesis was weakened.†
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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.
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)