"Do not discard any hypothesis.
Now we can test any hypothesis".
The official said investigators were not ruling out any hypothesis about who was behind the attacks.
"We didn't have any hypothesis," Dr. Bork said.
"The word 'gene' is completely free from any hypothesis," Johanssen declared, calling it "a very applicable little word".
The attractiveness of any hypothesis is determined in part by physical circumstances that have no logical connection to the diagnostic problem at hand.
In an interview in Santiago, Judge Guzmán said he did not yet have enough evidence to rule out any hypothesis, like the possibility that Mr. Weisfeiler was killed by the police, the army or even by local peasants.
Knowledge of results given early and late has effects similar enough to reject any hypothesis that learning arises merely from repetition.
A study by Elson and colleagues last year showed that for one particular methodology, the modified Taylor Competitive Reaction Time task, if you take a typical data set and analyse it using one of twenty-eight different analytical variants that exist in the research literature, it is possible to find 'evidence' to support any hypothesis you so wish.
But the minister of the environment, Yves Cochet, caused a stir this week when he said on television that "a new piece of information reached us which shows that there might have been a terrorist origin; we are not ruling out any hypothesis, including that of an accident".
Within a quarter of an hour he would have been forced to seek useless shelter against the intolerable heat — and this we can affirm independently of any hypothesis concerning the size and shape of this observer, provided that he was constructed, like us, of molecules and atoms — and in half an hour his testimony, and that of all his fellow-beings, would end.
