When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Antithesis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antithesis

    Antithesis (pl.: antitheses; Greek for "setting opposite", from ἀντι-"against" and θέσις "placing") is used in writing or speech either as a proposition that contrasts with or reverses some previously mentioned proposition, or when two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect.

  3. Occam's razor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor

    There are, however, notable exceptions where Occam's razor turns a conservative scientist into a reluctant revolutionary. For example, Max Planck interpolated between the Wien and Jeans radiation laws and used Occam's razor logic to formulate the quantum hypothesis, even resisting that hypothesis as it became more obvious that it was correct. [6]

  4. Hypotheses non fingo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotheses_non_fingo

    I have not as yet been able to discover the reason for these properties of gravity from phenomena, and I do not feign hypotheses. For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena must be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, or based on occult qualities, or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.

  5. The word theory in "the theory of evolution" does not imply scientific doubt regarding its validity; the concepts of theory and hypothesis have specific meanings in a scientific context. While theory in colloquial usage may denote a hunch or conjecture, a scientific theory is a set of principles that explains an observable phenomenon in natural ...

  6. Hypothesis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothesis

    The hypothesis of Andreas Cellarius, showing the planetary motions in eccentric and epicyclical orbits. A hypothesis (pl.: hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. A scientific hypothesis must be based on observations and make a testable and reproducible prediction about reality, in a process beginning with an educated guess or ...

  7. Category:Hypotheses - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hypotheses

    A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it. For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it.

  8. Hypothesis (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothesis_(disambiguation)

    A hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. Hypothesis may also refer to: Hypothesis, music by Vangelis; Hypothesis (drama), in ancient usage, a summary of the plot of a classical drama; Hypothesis of a theorem, in mathematics; Hypothes.is, a website annotation software; Hypothesis Z, the first Romanian war plan for World War I

  9. Opposite - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonym

    An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.