Sentence examples for hypothesis contrary from inspiring English sources

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.

The results further supported our hypothesis: contrary to the strong dose-dependent effect induced in WT males, 7-T had a much weaker if any inhibitory effect on Gr66a-Gal4/WT Figes (Fig. 2B; filled bars).

In this case, the data support the null hypothesis, contrary to the authors' conclusions.

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was contrary to prevailing academic wisdom, and was effectively ignored.

Obviously the SID hypothesis is contrary to demand and supply analysis that shows that an increase in the number of suppliers leads to an increase in quantity demanded due to the price effect.

Whilst this hypothesis is contrary to many of the studies described earlier--that an external or internal deterministic process triggers the immediate onset of a seizure--these two hypotheses are difficult to distinguish empirically because each represents a dramatic simplification of the physical processes in the real brain.

These data support a hypothesis that, contrary to previously observed diurnal patterns of shallower at night than day, more complex vertical movement patterns may exist in at least this, and perhaps all other Nautilus populations.

Consistent with our hypothesis, but contrary to the Ca2+-calmodulin feedback theory, a set of anti-calmodulin agents acutely inhibited the vanilloid/capsaicin induced Ca2+-uptake in TRPV1 expressing cells and neurons.

Moreover, in contrast to our hypothesis and contrary to the expandability theory, subjects who had smaller adipocytes even after adjusting for baseline FM had a larger decline in insulin sensitivity after overfeeding.

Here an account is given of the origins and current status of an hypothesis that, contrary to assumptions in the current literature, predicts that variation relating to psychosis is associated with changes on the X and Y chromosomes [Crow, 1988; DeLisi and Crow, 1989], and is epigenetic in nature.

On the other hand, the presence of unique haplotypes in southern Italy concurs with the hypothesis that, contrary to common belief, most relic rear edge populations may not have been the source of major postglacial re-colonisations, thereby preserving their high genetic distinctiveness [ 7].