Sentence examples for upon a hypothesis from inspiring English sources

Statements ascribing an inductive probability to a hypothesis are, in Carnap's view, analytic, because they merely formulate the strength of the support bestowed upon a hypothesis by a given body of evidence.

The oblique-impact process and the relations between the pre-impact state and the post-impact state of system are analyzed first upon a hypothesis on instantaneous oblique impacts.

Ethics guidelines rarely cite primary research literature (Martin, 1995), and the argument against "cooling then freezing" rests upon a hypothesis rather than specific empirical data.

This means in particular that our interpretation of the data relies upon a hypothesis of eumetazoan monophyly (here represented by Cnidaria + Bilateria).

This interpretation of Alexander's work is alluded to in the preface of A Pattern Language which states that "each pattern may be looked upon as a hypothesis, like one of the hypotheses of science" (Alexander et al. 1977, p xv).

His principal aim was to construct a formal system of inductive logic; its central concept, corresponding to that of deductive implication, would be that of probabilistic implication or, more precisely, a concept representing the degree of rational credibility or of probability that a given body of evidence may be said to confer upon a proposed hypothesis.

Such measurements are based upon a fundamental hypothesis that the deformation of polymer is elastic, that is, there is no tip-induced surface inelastic alteration or damage.

Indeed, the logical interpretation, in its various guises, seeks to encapsulate in full generality the degree of support or confirmation that a piece of evidence E confers upon a given hypothesis H, which we may write as c(H, E).

The endangerment finding ignores conclusions of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) own internal research report: "Given the downward trend in temperatures since 1998 (which some think will continue until at least 2030), there is no particular reason to rush into decisions based upon a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data".

A discussion of the specialized PJA as a key innovation, however, hinges, first of all, upon a phylogenetic hypothesis independent of pharyngeal characters as below.

One should decide upon an analysis based on a hypothesis of what will be most useful for thinking about a particular range of problems.