Sentence examples for contrary hypotheses from inspiring English sources

This first approach isn't necessarily problematic – the peer-review process is necessary but imperfect, and in fact contrary hypotheses are often useful scientific contributions.

Since a belief entails the denial of every contrary hypothesis, this closure principle in effect says that I cannot be justified in believing p unless I am justified in denying every hypothesis contrary to p — that is, unless I can rule out all contrary hypotheses.

Second, produce an argument or two supporting the contrary hypothesis, that God does not exist.

But there is a contrary hypothesis that may be just as compelling, and that would be bad news for Mr. Obama.

Generalizing, if there is any contrary hypothesis that I cannot rule out, then I am not justified in believing that what I see is a lake.

All a skeptic needs to show is that, for each belief, there is some contrary hypothesis that cannot be ruled out.

However if we consider the contrary hypothesis where Dromiciops can be the sister group of Australidelphia [7], the condition for the ancestral marsupial would be ambiguous and a tendency for arboreality would be as parsimonious as a more terrestrial lifestyle.

However, Hiatt and Fireman (1986) proposed a contrary hypothesis.

Hypothesis 1b was supported via the indirect SEA-JS path through SA; on the contrary, Hypothesis 2b was not supported, as gender did not moderate the direct effect of SA on JS.

Contrary to hypotheses, reassurance-seeking was a better predictor of conflict for women.

Contrary to hypotheses, heavy episodic drinking did not predict changes in depressive symptoms over 1 week.