I cannot however pass over this part of the subject without noticing Willis's opinion of it, and the ingenious hypothesis by which he attempts to explain this difficult subject.
Darwin's hypothesis than to mistrust his own feelings as to the difficulty of breathing, which is far the most terrific and painful of any of the symptoms.
Thus the copy of Aglio has made it possible to venture a hypothesis bordering on certainty concerning the original form of this monument.
We may pass in silence over the notes added by Lord Kingsborough himself, in which he tries to give support to his favorite hypothesis that the Jews were the first settlers of America.
I believe that the differences above mentioned, to which others will probably be added, are sufficient to justify my hypothesis of the original independence of the two codices.
This is a strained hypothesis which I hesitate to adopt so long as any other solution of the difficulty can be found.
The hypothesis therefore must be classified under Xenogenesis, rather than under Abiogenesis.
Dumouriez had based his entire scheme on the hypothesis that the decree concerning the priests would be accepted by the King.
The last hypothesis was hardly probable, nor does anything prove that the Jacobins had any hand in the possibly natural death of the Emperor Leopold.
Hippokratês, if he be the author, begins by deprecating the attempt to connect the study of medicine with physical or astronomical hypothesis (c.
In the hypothesis that we have given, most of the difficulties disappear.
This reductio ad absurdum, of the hypothesis of supernumerary personality has revealed the real hysteric character of the phenomena.
It is needless to add that we do not consider the hypothesis that we have advanced to be absolutely without objection.
It matters not to what hypothesis the path of speculation may lead.
It may be said that Spencer accepted the so-called identity hypothesis which does not lie open to the objection that it suggests two orders of being.
We just say that scientific interpretation proceeds on the working hypothesis that there is a correlation of such a kind that physiological process implies a physico-chemical basis.
So too, I urge, we should be content to say that scientific interpretation proceeds on the working hypothesis that there is a correlation of such a kind that cognitive process implies a physiological basis.
A journey from its roof to the roofs of the adjacent buildings is not difficult, and I am working on the hypothesis that the thieves entered the adjacent block of offices and crossed the roof.
The Christian thought of God is after all no more than an hypothesis propounded to account for the Christian life.
Behind the accepted hypotheses of science lie countless experiments; and anyone who questions an hypothesis is simply bidden repeat the experiment and convince himself.
And is there not a certain kinship between science and hypothesis which admits of their walking abreast without conflicting?
The concierge had not seen him, that was henceforth unquestionable; the hypothesis of the butcher's knife was put in a way to make his fortune; and it seemed probable that Caffie had not kept the numbers of the bank- notes.
At any rate, we may take it as a hypothesis and see what consequences it would entail.
If the fresh facts which come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution.
Another opinion says that in no case could the judge of the present hypothesis condemn.
Hence, it is not necessary that one hope with the proviso that, in the impossible hypothesis that God were unwilling to reward virtue, the reward would not be expected; for it is not necessary to consider chimerical cases.
The lawyer owes it to his client in the hypothesis we are considering to preserve the latter's confidence inviolate (see 1988).
The elevation might be easily accounted for on the hypothesis of air currents, so that no suspicion of insincerity would be aroused on the part of those watching us.
An hypothesis which accounts for the formation of Mars or Venus upon one theory, and that of the earth upon another, would never be countenanced by science.
It is not opposed to thehypothesis of reversion, 596.
For this reason we must for the present refrain from all hypothesis relating to this subject.
This latter hypothesis was readily confuted by the fact, that the most strongly marked of the dimorphic species, A.
If this could not be accomplished it would furnish a confirmation of my hypothesis than which nothing more rigorous could be desired.
Pictet,[124] who would reply, that judging by the experimental data which we have at present, this doctrine is an hypothesis not confirmed by the observation of facts.
God is an hypothesis, and hypothesis has no admission into the science of realities.
It is said that the idea of God can have no place in a serious science, because this idea comes neither from experience nor from reason; that it is only an hypothesis, and that hypothesis has no place in science.
I will grant it, and grant it quite seriously in order to ascertain what will be the influence of this hypothesis upon the problem on which we are engaged.
If this hypothesis explains the facts, it is sound, for the property of truth is to explain, as the property of light is to enlighten.
What is this hypothesis which bears the names of Moses and Jesus Christ?
Hypothesis does not carry on its brow, at the moment of its birth, the certain sign of its truth.
But this I deny; and in support of this denial I proceed to show that the hypothesis which it is pretended to get quit of, is the generating principle of all human knowledge.
An hypothesis has no right to be brought forward until it has passed into the condition of a law, by being duly confirmed.
How then does hypothesis come to be made light of?
The conditions are very clearly seen which have prepared and made possible a fruitful supposition, but the hypothesis does not itself follow of any necessity.
The idea returns; a new course of labor confirms it; and so the hypothesis becomes a law, a certain proposition.
Hypothesis is the sole process by which progress in science is effected.
But I may be permitted to point out that there is an alternative hypothesis which equally fits the facts; and that, after all, there may have been method in the madness of my supposed panic.
On the other hand, if the hypothesis that Gadara was under Jewish government, which Mr. Gladstone seems sometimes to defend and sometimes to give up, were accepted, my case would be nowise weakened.
Therefore, it would be a justifiable hypothesis that, long after organic evolution had attained to consciousness, pleasure and pain were still absent.
But this hypothesis is contrary to the evidence both of their declarations and their conduct.
Indeed, the general circumstances of the times are decisive against the hypothesis of the two reverend historians; nor is it, as far as I know, adopted by any other historians.
The physical explanations which I have seen are easy, but miserably insufficient: the spiritual hypothesis is sufficient but ponderously difficult.
As it is principally used by a Muhammadan caste it seems a possible hypothesis that the cotton-bow was introduced into India by invaders of that religion.
The most probable hypothesis of the origin of the Kolis is that they are a western branch of the Kol or Munda tribe who have spread from Chota Nagpur, through Mandla and Jubbulpore, Central India and Rajputana to Gujarat and the sea.
Unfortunately no detailed information about the Golapurabs of the Central Provinces is available, from which the probability or otherwise of this hypothesis could be tested.
It thus seems a reasonable hypothesis that the nucleus of the Banjara caste was constituted by the Charans or bards of Rajputana.
It seems a possible hypothesis that the cobra's hood really symbolised the umbrella, the principal emblem of royal rank, and it was in this way that the child's great destiny was predicted.
In view of this evidence it seems a probable hypothesis that the Bhuiyas are the earliest residents of these parts of Chota Nagpur and that they are a Kolarian tribe.
And it seems, therefore, a possible hypothesis that the needle and the art of sewing were brought into general use by the Moslem invaders.
This story and their fine appearance have given rise to the hypothesis that their ancestors were shipwrecked sailors from some European country, or from Arabia or Persia.
If this ether is a continuous substance, therefore, we have got back from the hypothesis of Dalton to that of Descartes.
The geocentric system of astronomy, with its eccentrics and its epicycles, was an hypothesis utterly at variance with fact, which nevertheless did great things for the advancement of astronomical knowledge.
In fact, the so-called 'vortex-ring' hypothesis is a very serious and remarkable attempt to deal with material units from a point of view which is consistent with the doctrine of evolution.
Sidenote: Fruitful use of an hypothesis even when wrong.
It is curious and highly interesting to remark that this hypothesis reminds us not only of the speculations of Descartes, but of those of Aristotle.
It was on this foundation of fact that Dalton based his re-establishment of the old atomic hypothesis on a new empirical foundation.
In its first value, the idea or hypothesis of gravitation entertained by Newton, stood, when verified, on exactly the same level as the hypothesis regarding the noise in the street.
In this way an idea is made true; that which was a proposal or hypothesis is no longer merely a propounding or a guess.
Many of them being still fettered, in geology, by the hypothesis of catastrophes; in chemistry, by the hypothesis of vital forces.
Mr Mill repudiates the explanatory hypothesis tendered by Mr Mansel, as a solution, but without suggesting any better hypothesis of his own.
He here distinguishes also formal induction from, material induction, which latter he brings under the grasp of syllogism, by an hypothesis in substance similar to that of Whately.
