scientific hypothesis

idea that proposes a tentative explanation about a phenomenon or a narrow set of phenomena observed in the natural world (primary features of a scientific hypothesis: falsifiability, testability)
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scientific hypothesis

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Key Facts

  • scientific hypothesis's subclass of is recorded as hypothesis[1].
  • scientific hypothesis's subclass of is recorded as idea[2].
  • scientific hypothesis's opposite of is recorded as unscientific hypothesis[3].
  • scientific hypothesis's has cause is recorded as scientist[4].
  • scientific hypothesis's facet of is recorded as philosophy of science[5].
  • scientific hypothesis's replaced by is recorded as scientific theory[6].
  • scientific hypothesis's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/scientific-hypothesis[7].
  • scientific hypothesis's has effect is recorded as hypothetical scientific object[8].
  • scientific hypothesis's has characteristic is recorded as falsifiability[9].
  • scientific hypothesis's has characteristic is recorded as testability[10].
  • scientific hypothesis's different from is recorded as research hypothesis[11].
  • scientific hypothesis's different from is recorded as alternative hypothesis[12].
  • scientific hypothesis's studied by is recorded as science[13].
  • scientific hypothesis's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/121_znr4[14].
  • scientific hypothesis's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 117977[15].

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  1. [1] . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] . britannica.com. britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  9. [9] . britannica.com. britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [10] . britannica.com. britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  13. [13] . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] . wikidata.org.

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