But let men, according to their diverse hypotheses, resolve of that as they please.
In philosophy, again, it seems not uncommon for two rival hypotheses to be both able to account for all the facts.
He next examined the various hypotheses that had been suggested to account for them:--Was it a failure in the law of gravitation?
If we had come to plausible results on the basis of these hypotheses, we would have been justified in concluding that the hypotheses were correct.
Then it surely is natural to say, "These results are impossible, foolish, at least very improbable, hence there must have been something wrong with the hypotheses.
The slow, the never-ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.
His imagination was perhaps more luxuriant and was allowed freer play than most men's, but it was nevertheless always controlled by rigid examination and comparison of hypotheses with fact.
But though such an idea was mentioned among astronomers, it was not regarded with any special favour, and was considered merely as one among a number of hypotheses which could be suggested as fairly probable.
Our dream interpretations were made on the hypotheses we accepted a little while ago, that the dream has some meaning, that from the hypnotic to the normal sleep one may carry over the idea of the existence at such times of an unconscious psychic activity, and that all associations are predetermined.