2011年5月9日 · @czh, in this context 'wild' means remotely plausible. You can understand this sense by comparing it to reasonable: a wild person/behaviour is the opposite of a reasonable one. The same applies to hypothesis a wild speculation is unfounded. For instance wildly speculative gossips about celebrities: with little or no supporting evidence.

For the results of the experiment to be scientific I think you need repeatability, which must include the definition of the hypothesis and the testing method. If none is given it is definitively not clear how were you testing (i.e. testing for anything will be different for different people). Therefore I support the opinion that you are not ...

What is the most appropriate verb when talking about making a new hypothesis? E.g. Lenneburg created the critical period hypothesis. Lenneburg coined the critical period hypothesis. Lenneburg came up with the critical period hypothesis. Lenneburg termed the critical period hypothesis....etc. I don't know which sounds the most appropriate.

2019年7月4日 · Past and past perfect apply to events in the past whether they occurred or not. What matters is when each happened. There is also present and present perfect but not part of your question. The hypothesis vs condition question is strange. A hypothesis is a description of a condition or situation; a hypothetical condition. Their truth condition ...

2012年1月5日 · Usage as a prefix in the word hypo-thesis suggests that an hypothesis does not rise to the credibility afforded a thesis of work which has been exhaustively examined for credibility and correctness. An hypothesis may thus be regarded as a collection of inferences and conclusions, deduced as the result of an initial proposal or postulate.

2011年8月23日 · A scheme or system of ideas or statements held as an explanation or account of a group of facts or phenomena; a hypothesis that has been been confirmed or estabilished by observation or experiment; a statement of what are held to be the general laws, principles or causes of something known or observed.

‘H’ represents a consonant sound, so we would expect ‘a hypothesis’, and that is what many say and write. However, where the stress in a word beginning with a sounded /h/ is on the second or subsequent syllable, some native speakers precede the word with ‘an’ rather than ‘a’, so you will also see and hear ‘an hypothesis’.

2012年1月6日 · The biggest difference is in the hypothesis. A valid hypothesis is one which appears to have supporting evidence, or which has not been disproven*. A verified hypothesis is one which has been proven (in this case, the anti-hypothesis). Let's say that your hypothesis is that the user has entered their email address correctly.

An assumption is a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof. A conjecture is to form an opinion or supposition about (something) on the basis of incomplete information.

2013年1月11日 · and the interesting thing is, the word seem has the definition: seem. give the impression or sensation of being something or having a particular quality. So when you use the second/third sentence. It seems (that) they have not completed the task yet. you are giving a hypothesis as you are saying that