Sentence examples for false hypotheses from inspiring English sources

Both the acceptance of false hypotheses and the rejection of true ones are errors that scientists should try to avoid.

For example, the idea that false hypotheses are rejected only when they are explicitly falsified in the data suggests that learners are incapable of taking any kind of probabilistic or holistic approach to confirmation and disconfirmation.

If some false hypotheses are closer to the truth than others, if verisimilitude admits of degrees, then the history of inquiry may well turn out to be one of progress towards the goal of truth.

Likewise, the idea that learners unequipped with inborn knowledge of UG are very likely indeed to entertain false hypotheses suggests that their method of generating hypotheses is insensitive to background information or past experience.

By acquiring these concepts she acquires the capacity to ask new questions, and to form new (eventually false) hypotheses (e.g. about the appearance of the sky to normal perceivers).

If the evidence about language available to children does not enable them to reject false hypotheses, and if they nonetheless hit on the correct grammar, then language learning could not be a kind of scientific inquiry, which depends in part on being able to find evidence to weed out incorrect theories.

As he ran through the trick a second time, annotating each step, we saw how we had been led to mismatch cause and effect, to form one false hypothesis after another.

This false hypothesis results from an underdeveloped comprehension of the laws and paradigms of time, which can never really be understood by someone still operating in a sub-ten-thousand-step mind state.

A false hypothesis in science can often be fruitful; by demonstrating the errors of Liebig's schemes, many important principles were discovered.

Horapollon made use of a good source, but he himself certainly could not read hieroglyphic writing and began with the false hypothesis of the Greek tradition namely, that hieroglyphs were symbols and allegories, not phonetic signs.

To confirm his early (and false) hypothesis that the direct fixation of nitrogen by some vegetables was facilitated by atmospheric electricity, he became involved in the study on the nitrification of soils by microorganisms.