It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.

therefore, in the investigation of the present hypothesis, it was necessary to control this factor.

The hypothesis of there being an interaction between compulsivity and teaching method was supported, in this case, at the level.

Likewise, Kant formulated the nebular hypothesis, according to which the solar system was evolved from a rotating mass of incandescent gas, nearly a half century before its scientific value was made plain by Laplace in his Systeme Du Monde.

Let us put to ourselves the hypothesis that we had not come on the scene and that the rabbit never was discovered.

Moseley, after discussions with Bohr who was at the same lab ( and who had used Van den Broek's hypothesis in his Bohr model of the atom ), decided to test Van den Broek and Bohr's hypothesis directly, by seeing if spectral lines emitted from excited atoms fit the Bohr theory's demand that the frequency of the spectral lines be proportional to a measure of the square of Z.

An early psychical researcher to propose an afterlife hypothesis was Edmund Fournier d ' Albe he wrote that at the moment of death the soul floats into the atmosphere.

However, the idea that electrons might revolve around a compact nucleus with definite angular momentum was convincingly argued at least 19 years earlier by Niels Bohr, and the Japanese physicist Hantaro Nagaoka published an orbit-based hypothesis for electronic behavior as early as 1904.

The hypothesis to Isocrates ' Helen mentions that Anaximenes, too, had written a Helen, " though it is more a defense speech ( apologia ) than an encomium ," and concludes that he was " the man who has written about Helen " to whom Isocrates refers ( Isoc.

After the acceptance of Avogadro's hypothesis in 1860 it was understood that elements could exist as polyatomic molecules, and the two allotropes of oxygen were recognized as O < sub > 2 </ sub > and O < sub > 3 </ sub >.

A dismissive allusion in the text to the " wealth of Hungary " has suggested the hypothesis that it was written after 1184, at the time when Bela III of Hungary had sent to the French court a statement of his income and had proposed marriage to Marie's sister Marguerite of France, but before 1186, when his proposal was accepted.

It was these formations that the scientific community widely suspected were formed by lunar volcanism ; however, this hypothesis was proven incorrect by the composition of retrieved lunar samples from the mission.

In 2008, psychology professor Benny Shanon published a controversial hypothesis that a brew analogous to Ayahuasca was heavily connected to early Judaism, and that the effects of this brew were responsible for some of the most significant events of Moses ' life, including his vision of the burning bush.

With this model, Thomson abandoned his earlier " nebular atom " hypothesis in which the atom was composed of immaterial vortices.

There was an artificial platform there and this apparent verification of Thom's long alignment hypothesis ( Kintraw was diagnosed as an accurate winter solstice site ) led him to check Thom's geometrical theories at the Cultoon stone circle in Islay, also with a positive result.

In On the Infinite, David Hilbert hypothesized that the Ackermann function was not primitive recursive, but it was Ackermann, Hilbert ’ s personal secretary and former student, who actually proved the hypothesis in his paper On Hilbert ’ s Construction of the Real Numbers.

The hypothesis was inspired by the existence of the ancient Kingdom of Iberia farther east in the Mediterranean and further by some typological similarities between the two languages.

According to J. P. Mallory, in his 1989 book In Search of the Indo-Europeans, the hypothesis was also inspired by a Basque place-name ending in-adze.

Published in Nature in 1985, the study found that predictions based on natal astrology were no better than chance, and that the testing " clearly refutes the astrological hypothesis ".

More specifically, the continuum hypothesis / assumption hinges on the concepts of a representative volume element ( RVE ) ( sometimes called " representative elementary volume ") and separation of scales based on the Hill – Mandel condition.

Conjecture is contrasted by hypothesis ( hence theory, axiom, principle ), which is a testable statement based on accepted grounds.

He suggests at some points that the pagan deities are based on humans, but at others that they are misanthropic demons, and he cites several classical sources in support of this second hypothesis.

The most widely discussed models for nonbaryonic dark matter are based on the Cold Dark Matter hypothesis, and the corresponding particle is most commonly assumed to be a weakly interacting massive particle ( WIMP ).

Their research is based on the hypothesis that language is a complex adaptive system that emerges through adaptive interactions between agents and continues to evolve in order to remain adapted to the needs and capabilities of the agents.

This hypothesis is dismissed by pious scholars as erroneous, based on a mistaken cuneiform reading, but academic debate continues.

) The Nostratic hypothesis is however based on the comparative method, unlike some other superfamily hypotheses.

In China, the polymath Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) formulated a hypothesis for the process of land formation: based on his observation of fossil animal shells in a geological stratum in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that the land was formed by erosion of the mountains and by deposition of silt.

The Witch Cult hypothesis states that such stories are based upon a real-life pagan cult that revered a horned god

' In the second case, he cites an example that demonstrates ignorance of statistical principles in the lay press: ' Since no such proof is possible genetically modified food is harmless, the article in The New York Times was what is called a " bad rap " against the U. S. Department of Agriculture-a bad rap based on a junk-science belief that it's possible to prove a null hypothesis.

Other scholars have argued against Rushton's hypothesis on the basis that the concept of race is not supported by genetic evidence about the diversity of human populations, and that his research is based on folk taxonomies.

For instance, James G. Gilson has constructed a " Quantum Theory of Gravity " based loosely on Dirac's large number hypothesis.

This was derived empirically by Fresnel in 1815, based on Huygen's hypothesis that each point on a wavefront generates a secondary spherical wavefront, which Fresnel combined with the principle of superposition of waves.

The Kurgan hypothesis, currently the most widely held theory, is based on linguistic, archaeological, and genetic evidence, but is not universally accepted.

Then, in 1905, to explain the photoelectric effect ( 1839 ), i. e., that shining light on certain materials can function to eject electrons from the material, Albert Einstein postulated, based on Planck ’ s quantum hypothesis, that light itself consists of individual quantum particles, which later came to be called photons ( 1926 ).

The most widely accepted hypothesis of its action is based on the well-studied and closely related quinoline drug, chloroquine.

The RNA world hypothesis proposes that self-replicating ribonucleic acid ( RNA ) molecules were precursors to current life, which is based on deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ), RNA and proteins.

Since neither Sapir nor Whorf had ever stated an actual hypothesis, Brown and Lenneberg formulated one based on a condensation of the different expressions of the notion of linguistic relativity in their works.

Since many of the Mitzvot themselves are thought to postdate the Book ( s ) of Samuel ( according to the documentary hypothesis ), Chronicles is probably making its claim based on religious bias.

This means that the elements which comprise this theory are not based on hypothesis but on empirical discovery.

Richard Owen argued for the latter hypothesis in the 19th century, based on fossils found in 1877 in New South Wales.

In 1986, Gilbert proposed the RNA world hypothesis for the origin of life, based on a concept first proposed by Carl Woese in 1967.

That is, the observation is framed in terms of the theory that also contains the hypothesis it is meant to verify or falsify ( though of course the observation should not be based on an assumption of the truth or falsity of the hypothesis being tested ).