Assertion: hypothesis | /r/HasProperty | science
Facets:
value: highly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: As nouns the difference between hypothesis and guess is that hypothesis is (sciences) used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation as a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation compare to theory, and quotation given there while guess is a prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.
text: For a hypothesis to be termed a scientific hypothesis, it has to be something that can be supported or refuted through carefully crafted experimentation or observation.
text: Theories may either be scientific or other than scientific (or scientific to less extent).
text: Others say that the zoo hypothesis, along with its planetarium variation, is highly speculative and more aligned with theological theories.
text: If it passes and is not proven wrong, it can eventually be considered a scientific theory or law, though nothing in science can be proven to be absolutely true.
text: For a hypothesis to be considered a scientific hypothesis, it must be proven through the scientific method.
text: As nouns the difference between premise and hypothesis is that premise is a proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition while hypothesis is (sciences) used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation as a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation compare to theory, and quotation given there.
text: For a hypothesis to be termed a scientific hypothesis, it has to be something that can be supported or refuted through carefully crafted experimentation or observation.