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.
Contrary to what has been claimed, the theory is not insulated against attempts to disconfirm it.
