Sentence examples for a serious hypothesis from inspiring English sources
"What they've done is take a serious hypothesis about how the T rex worked, based on good evidence," she says.
But it is a serious hypothesis that in fact our mental representations have a good deal in common with simple set-theoretic structures, so that they are 'models' in the model-theoretic sense too.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, in other words, an ancient myth had mutated into a serious scientific hypothesis: the theory of the open polar sea.
His work on glaciers revolutionized geology, and drove another nail in the coffin of the Biblical Flood as a serious scientific hypothesis.
The symmetry-based justification for analogical reasoning outlined in §4.3 gives us what amounts to a modal version of Reflection: if, so far as present opinion is concerned, I might come to accept a hypothesis, then I should regard that hypothesis as a serious (prima facie) possibility.
This could be aggravated when using the CAT model by the very long branch observed at the base of Bilateria in recoded sequences, which indicates a large amount of profile affiliation changes, and hence a serious violation of one hypothesis of the CAT model (i.e. the time-homogeneity of the evolutionary process).
It was only towards the end of his career that he encountered in Ducasse's adverbial theory a serious alternative to the sense-datum hypothesis.
Wason accepted falsificationism, according to which a scientific test of a hypothesis is a serious attempt to falsify it.
The catalytic role of mineral surfaces (e.g. pyrite, montmorillite, calcite) has been invoked [ 13- 17] as a possible solution, but the problem of probably insufficient catalytic specificity on such surfaces is still a serious argument against the "metabolism first" hypothesis.
We formulated the following hypotheses: There is a serious lack of information addressing the problems the patient may face after discharge.
