Sentence examples for rival hypotheses from inspiring English sources

There are two rival hypotheses concerning the motives for and costs of hedging.

The Church wanted, as today's intelligent designers now say, to be allowed to "teach the controversy"—to teach the Copernican and Aristotelian views as rival hypotheses, both plausible, both unproved.

The Church wanted, as today's intelligent designers now say, to be allowed to "teach the controversy" — to teach the Copernican and Aristotelian views as rival hypotheses, both plausible, both unproved.

If so, on present evidence it also tends to eliminate rival hypotheses.

'Open' future means that observers can figure out a set of rival hypotheses, which has space for residual hypotheses [9].

Sympathetic identification with the subjects of study may generate important criticisms of dominant theories and significant rival hypotheses (Hrdy 1986).

The rival hypothesis of Holbrook Working maintains that hedging is done with the expectation of a profit from a favourable change in the spot-futures price relation, to simplify business decisions, and to cut costs, and not for the sake of reducing risk alone.

Hence, we may offer a rival hypothesis according to which.

The appeal to what might yet be discovered is not itself a rival hypothesis.

Thus Russell's explicit arguments for the "subjectivity of value" are objections to objectivism rather than arguments for a rival hypothesis.

If the genetic affinities do mirror linguistic families, this would be strong evidence against a rival hypothesis that farmers from the Middle East spread early Indo-European languages.