Science and Hypothesis (French: La Science et l'Hypothèse) is a book by French mathematician Henri Poincaré, first published in 1902. Aimed at a non-specialist...

the words "hypothesis" and "theory" are often used interchangeably, but this is incorrect in the context of science. A working hypothesis is a provisionally-accepted...

The Silurian hypothesis is a thought experiment, which assesses modern science's ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization, perhaps...

The null hypothesis (often denoted H0) is the claim in scientific research that the effect being studied does not exist. The null hypothesis can also...

translations of Science and Hypothesis (1902), The Value of Science (1905), Science and Method (1908). 1905. "Science and Hypothesis", The Walter Scott...

testable hypothesis through inductive reasoning, testing it through experiments and statistical analysis, and adjusting or discarding the hypothesis based...

structures and processes. The hypothesis is preceded by many earlier versions, and variations on the idea have also been featured in science fiction, appearing...

the Gaia hypothesis with ideas from fields such as Earth system science, biogeochemistry and systems ecology. Even so, the Gaia hypothesis continues...

A working hypothesis is a hypothesis that is provisionally accepted as a basis for further ongoing research in the hope that a tenable theory will be produced...

popular science writer Elaine Morgan supported this hypothesis in her 1972 book The Descent of Woman. In it, she contrasted the theory with zoologist and ethnologist...

statistical hypothesis test is a method of statistical inference used to decide whether the data provide sufficient evidence to reject a particular hypothesis. A...

the Whorf hypothesis; the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (/səˌpɪər ˈhwɔːrf/ sə-PEER WHORF); the Whorf–Sapir hypothesis; and Whorfianism. The hypothesis is in dispute...

questions in the philosophy of science and adds detail to the topics addressed by Poincaré's previous book, Science and Hypothesis (1902). The first part of...

The dark forest hypothesis is the conjecture that many alien civilizations exist throughout the universe, but they are both silent and hostile, maintaining...

Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science...

mathematics, the Riemann hypothesis is the conjecture that the Riemann zeta function has its zeros only at the negative even integers and complex numbers with...

cognition) to stronger extended and enactive versions that are sometimes referred to as radical embodied cognitive science. A hypothesis of pre-perceptual multimodal...

between two statistical data sets, or a data set and synthetic data drawn from an idealized model. A hypothesis is proposed for the statistical relationship...

Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals; The Will to Power Jules Henri Poincaré – Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method Sigmund Freud...

(Science and Hypothesis), John Stuart Mill’s A System of Logic, David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature, and Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics, and sometimes literary...

Flatterland (chapter 10, Platterland). Poincaré, Henri (1952). Science and hypothesis. New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications. p. 51. ISBN 0486602214. Retrieved...

mathématique", Revue Générale des Sciences Pures et Appliquées, 11: 1163–1175. Reprinted in "Science and Hypothesis", Ch. 9–10. Poincaré, Henri (1900b)...

Ortega hypothesis holds that average or mediocre scientists contribute substantially to the advancement of science. According to this hypothesis, scientific...

The Anatolian hypothesis, also known as the Anatolian theory or the sedentary farmer theory, first developed by British archaeologist Colin Renfrew in...

The Red Queen's hypothesis is a hypothesis in evolutionary biology proposed in 1973, that species must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate in order...

Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis (1905) (from Dover abridged edition of 1952) The scientific method regularly quantifies[citation needed] doubt, and uses it...

Bold hypothesis or bold conjecture is a concept in the philosophy of science of Karl Popper, first explained in his debut The Logic of Scientific Discovery...

Prout's hypothesis was an early 19th-century attempt to explain the existence of the various chemical elements through a hypothesis regarding the internal...

The giant-impact hypothesis, sometimes called the Theia Impact, is an astrogeology hypothesis for the formation of the Moon first proposed in 1946 by Canadian...

It serves as a revision to the earlier documentary hypothesis, which proposed that independent and complete narratives were later combined by redactors...