Assertion: hypothesis | /r/HasProperty | explanation
Facets:
value: in science
type: OTHER
value: for a phenomenon
type: OTHER
value: for a set of observations
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: A hypothesis is an explanation for a set of observations.
text: In science, however, a theory is an explanation that generally is accepted to be true.
text: A hypothesis is an explanation for a phenomenon that can be tested in some way that ideally either proves or disproves it.
text: Snowball Earth hypothesis, in geology and climatology, an explanation first proposed by American geobiologist J.L. Kirschvink suggesting that Earth’s oceans and land surfaces were covered by ice from the poles to the Equator during at least two extreme cooling events between 2.4 billion and 580 million years ago.
text: In science, it has to be an explanation that can be tested somehow.
text: It is a prediction or explanation that is tested by an experiment.
text: In science, a hypothesis is an idea or explanation that you then test through study and experimentation.
text: A hypothesis is a provisional idea or explanation requiring evaluation.