Sentence examples for legitimate hypothesis from inspiring English sources

A legitimate hypothesis is not an article of faith.

"Mr Darwin's remarkable speculation on the origin of species is another unimpeachable example of a legitimate hypothesis... he has opened up a path of inquiry full of promise, the results of which none can foresee".

Nevertheless, the present manuscript includes gaps in logic and major weaknesses that compel me to conclude that at the present stage, the idea is sheer, unfounded speculation not a legitimate hypothesis.

There has been a recent move to understand how seizures begin and terminate through the study of macrostructural networks using animal models, neuroimaging data, and simulated data; loss of connectivity between brain regions is a legitimate hypothesis for the etiology of both focal and generalized seizures.

Again, this hypothesis remains legitimate but so far no statistical evidence.

One strong hypothesis that legitimates Frohlich's and Parker's predictions [ 5] is that differences in the tissue identity (which, in this case, is used as an indicator of the tissue origin) can be evaluated at a transcriptomics level by comparing proportions of expressed genes.

If there is only one type of mitochondria in the bruchids, and if this mitochondria carries the two gene copies, it seems at first sight that the presence of two cytb copies in Z. subfasciatus rules out the hypothesis of a legitimate recombination to transfer this gene.

Institutional allocation which follows a principle of equality (everyone gets an equal share) can perhaps be legitimated in terms of the Ortega hypothesis more than in terms of the elite structure proposed by the Newton hypothesis [8].

Chaplains' empirical inquiries and hypotheses were validated as legitimate research questions by the other members of the team.

So O'Malley and Koonin are partly right when they claim that Bapteste and I would "claim that accommodation and expansion are not legitimate ways in which to treat hypotheses".

Doolittle and Bapteste, if pressed on this point, could claim that accommodation and expansion are not legitimate ways in which to treat hypotheses, especially when doing so relies on circularity between explanans and explanandum.