In terms of the overall direction of the correlation between father absence and reproductive timings, our finding that father absence broadly accelerates these events is in line with the predictions of hypotheses 1 3, but cannot speak to hypothesis 4, since this hypothesis doesn't make a clear prediction about the direction of father-absence effects.
Strictly speaking, the hypothesis is false; that realization came about much later with the development of measure theory.
Though the innateness doctrine is, strictly speaking, an hypothesis about cognitive development, it is attractive to Plato because of its deeper metaphysical and methodological consequences.
Our results are also concordant with the gestural origin of spoken language hypothesis, where the motor learning ability of gestures in humans and non-human primates has been argued to be the precursor behavior for motor learning of speech/language [112] [114].
The mines in this field can blow up an entire career, as Larry Summers found out in 2005 when he spoke of the hypothesis that the mathematical aptitude needed for physics and engineering, as well as for maths itself, is innately rarer in women than in men.
The hub-and-spoke hypothesis suggests that coherent concepts require both transmodal anterior temporal lobe representations plus these distributed modality-specific sources of information (for discussion of these issues, see: Patterson et al., 2007; Lambon Ralph, 2013).
I recall sitting in a box with Henry Kissinger at a Washington football game; when the referee outrageously penalized the Redskins for pass interference, Henry rose to his feet, shook his fists and shouted, "On vot theory?" Strictly speaking, he meant hypothesis, but "only a theory" -- as against demonstrated fact -- is a longtime sense of the term.
Where Alain Badiou talks today of an almost ahistorical "communist hypothesis", Bloch spoke about an "invariant of direction", a mood of an eternal desire for human liberation that breaks out at certain historical points where the objective conditions allow it.
The literature suggests two potential relationships between gesture and language (1) gesture arises during conceptual preparations for speaking (the Interface Hypothesis) or (2) gestures are generated from lexical semantics (the Lexical Hypothesis).
The true hypothesis speaks truthfully about this, and its competitors lie.
This was because one needed a hypothesis of how to apply the abstract demonstrative truths to observed facts ("Introduction" §7) — how to fit the fitnesses to actions so to speak — and this hypothesis itself was not deductively secure.
