Periodicals>Journal Article:  Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder (1897), Studies for Students. The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses, Journal of Geology, 1897, 842-3., Retrieved on 2012-01-30
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30 JAN 2012

 The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses

It will be observed that the distinction [between hypothesis and theory] is not such as to prevent a working hypothesis from gliding with the utmost ease into a ruling theory. Affection may as easily cling about a beloved intellectual child when named as a hypothesis as if named a theory, and its establishment in the one guise may become a ruling passion very much as in the other. The historical antecedents and the moral atmosphere associated with the working hypothesis lend some good influen...
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By maintaining many hypotheses, the scientist does not fall in love with one over the others and fall into the trap of confirmation bias.

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