Frankfurt then goes on to argue that a number of passages in Peirce's work suggest an understanding of abduction not so much as a process of inventing hypotheses but rather as one of adopting hypotheses, where the adoption of the hypothesis is not as being true or verified or confirmed, but as being a worthy candidate for further investigation.
Given, he says, that there may be infinitely many hypotheses that account for a given fact or set of facts which Peirce acknowledged it can hardly be a sufficient condition for the adoption of a hypothesis (in the above sense) that its truth would make that fact or set of facts a matter of course.
In some cases, enthusiastic adoption of this hypothesis resulted in wrong conclusions being drawn from otherwise valid data (compare, e.g., Matsuzaki et al. [2008] with Grauvogel et al. [2007]).
Allison attributes the widespread adoption of the breakfast hypothesis at least in part on researchers who read too much into observational studies, and wrongly ignore the stronger evidence from the randomized controlled trials.
Conclusions This study identified factors associated with normal pregnancy through adoption of a novel hypothesis generating approach, which has shifted the emphasis away from adverse outcomes towards uncomplicated pregnancies.
Even when no pathology is present, biases affecting the adoption and evaluation of hypotheses are going to be the (statistical) norm, which makes it difficult to uniquely identify the problem with the adoption and the persistence of delusional beliefs.
Nonetheless, we can think of them as idealizations, which makes adoption of compositionality as a working hypothesis still a reasonable one.
The paper deals with such hypothesis: the adoption of system thinking approach in product development process and the skills required to people involved in the process.
The 14- and 20-fold rate decreases observed experimentally for the G41A and G41V mutations, respectively (Table 4), support the hypothesis that adoption of a backbone conformation more favorable for glycine than for the other amino acids at position 41 is important for the loop structure, Asp38 positioning, and thus KSI activity.
This evidence is coherent with the Porter hypothesis: complementarity-related adoption of EI is an element of organisational change in firms that are subject to more stringent environmental regulations.
To test the hypothesis that international adoption of Chinese and Eastern European girls after 9 months of age results in long-term changes in the neural circuitry supporting monolingual English in later childhood.
