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"A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires tha
by tome 8y ago
"A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothesis
- skj 8y agoIn context, it appears like you're stating that "yes of course it's a hypothesis, here is the definition". But the post you're replying to suggested it wasn't because he/she did not see any way to effectively test it (the falsifiable comment), which would exclude it from the definition.
- tome 8y agoI'm confused. According to Wikipedia "A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon." The same article also states that "In common usage in the 21st century, a hypothesis refers to a provisional idea whose merit requires evaluation". Thus what I called "hypothesis" is indeed one by Wikipedia's usage. I also quoted the sentence "For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it." (my emphasis) in order to point out that what pbhjpbhj called "hypothesis" seems to be normally called "scientific hypothesis".
- skj 8y agopbhjpbhj also led with "Is it scientific?" which should have cleared things up.