Sentence examples for provisional hypotheses from inspiring English sources

He continued his advocacy by mail, offering the following rebuttal to Holmes's accusation: "Opinions are at best provisional hypotheses, incompletely tested.

"Under pangenesis Mr. Mivart brings together an array of strong objections against Mr. Darwin's far-fetched provisional hypotheses".

This feeling may activate analytical reasoning in the diagnostic process by stimulating a GP to formulate provisional hypotheses involving potentially serious outcomes.

One trainee explained that a sense of alarm may arise because patterns and provisional hypotheses no longer fit (see Text box  1 quotation m).

A hypothetico-deductive strategy was often used, by listing differential diagnoses and discussing what information guided the reasoning process and might confirm or exclude provisional hypotheses.

Some supervisors explained to the trainees that the sense of alarm needed to activate diagnostic thinking, i.e. analytic reasoning, by stimulating them to reconsider provisional hypotheses and to look for cues responsible for the uneasy feeling.

Beginning with a provisional hypothesis about the world (there are, of course, no other kinds), we assign to it an initial probability called the prior probability or simply the prior.

As a solution to the variation question, Darwin developed his "provisional hypothesis" of pangenesis, which he presented the year after the appearance of the Jenkin review in his two-volume Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication (1868).

Alternatively they were rejected if the data did not support the provisional hypothesis.

Note that the above results are to be treated with care when trying to validate provisional hypothesis.

As more B. thailandensis isolates are discovered, their phylogenetic and geographic associations will be critical for confirming or rejecting this provisional hypothesis.