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What is the hypothesis?

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noun noun: hypothesis; plural noun: hypotheses

  1. a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation. "professional astronomers attacked him for popularizing an unconfirmed hypothesis"

    synonyms: theory, theorem, thesis, conjecture, supposition, postulation, postulate, proposition, premise, assumption; More notion, concept, idea, possibility "his "steady state" hypothesis of the origin of the universe"

    • Philosophy a proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth.

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noun noun: hypothesis; plural noun: hypotheses

  1. a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation. "professional astronomers attacked him for popularizing an unconfirmed hypothesis"

    synonyms: theory, theorem, thesis, conjecture, supposition, postulation, postulate, proposition, premise, assumption; More notion, concept, idea, possibility "his "steady state" hypothesis of the origin of the universe"

    • Philosophy a proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth.

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