hypothesis vs theory
Definitions
noun
- a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena
- a proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations
- a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
Examples
To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected.
This also suggests that this deity was first adopted by the tradition of the monastery of Sa-gya, [26] a hypothesis further confirmed by the reference in the founding myth to his being taken over by the holder of the Sa-gya throne So-nam-rin-chen (bsod nams rin chen).
The British Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake introduced the concepts of Morphic Fields and Morphic Resonance in his revolutionary 1981 book A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation.
Definitions
noun
- a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena
- a belief that can guide behavior
- a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena
Examples
His work is thus marked with a bitter irony which permeated not only the substance of his theory but also its method.
Part of the problem in making extrapolations from these patterns to build a theory is that the relationship between language and social structure may vary considerably, both synchronically and diachronically.
Their course of study includes elementary hygiene and medical theory.
