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Studies for Students. The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses

Kind
Journal Article
Date
1897
Publisher
Journal of Geology
Volume / pages
1897, 842-3.
Retrieved
Jan 30, 2012

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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…