The manual review exposed the limitations of the computer-survey approach because it revealed that some articles that did not use these terms involved some sort of theory or hypothesis testing.
Even in the more refined results, namely Corollary 2.5 and Theorem 2.7, we see that some sort of additional hypothesis is required above and beyond the nonnegativity of the fractional difference.
Simple can't theories often embrace some sort of impossibility hypothesis, suggesting that propositions that evoke imaginative resistance are impossible in the context of the stories where they appear, and that this explains why readers fail to imagine them as true in the fiction.
In QTL analyses, a typical procedure is to estimate the effects of the loci first, and then to quantify multi-locus association detection uncertainty or significance by applying some sort of decision rules (e.g., hypothesis testing).
"I had this sort of hypothesis that there are all these people in America who are dying to get together and engage with one another, really lock hearts and minds -- and they just needed a catalyst," Mr. Phillips said in a recent phone interview.
And perhaps there is an emerging view on the committee that monetary policy which is demonstrably too tight in the short run may nonetheless be the optimal policy over longer time horizons, given the reduced risk of major financial crises.That sort of hypothesis is not absurd on its face.
This is and example the sort of hypothesis that Russell contrasts with construction in the famous passage about "theft" and "honest toil".
This sort of hypothesis can be discounted in the current data set for two reasons.
Berr argued that no discipline could proceed without some sort of logical method that would involve hypothesis and synthesis as well as analysis.
Their paper, "Discovery of peculiar periodic spectral modulations in a small fraction of solar type stars," details their hypothesis that these signals indicate some sort of alien intelligence.
