"rival hypothesis" is an acceptable phrase in written English that can be used to refer to an opposing idea that is in competition with another idea.
Example sentence: After considering the evidence, I believe the rival hypothesis is more compelling.
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.
An explanatory argument is typically contrastive: it aims to show, for example, that one hypothesis is a better explanation of a certain body of facts than any rival hypothesis or than the disjunction of all rival hypotheses.
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].
