Assertion: hypothesis | /r/HasProperty | confirmed
Facets:
value: partially
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: While a hypothesis can be partially confirmed by showing that what is deduced from it with certain initial conditions is actually found under those conditions, it cannot be completely proved in this way.
text: Every scientific study, whether experimental or descriptive, begins with a hypothesis that the study is designed to test -- that is, depending on the results of the study, the hypothesis will be either confirmed or disconfirmed.
text: If a well-designed study delivers the results predicted by the hypothesis, then that hypothesis is confirmed.
text: The formulation of the hypothesis is one of the steps of the scientific method, in which the researcher generates a hypothesis that will later be confirmed or rejected.