N.Wells
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(N.Wells @ Nov. 11 2014,10:41)
Also, to be useful an hypothesis has to be testable.
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Try reading for comprehension. Yes, the Dinosaur Train simplification is pretty good (particularly for little kids), and yes, in science, hypotheses tend to be useful to the extent that they are testable. However, that is not the beginning and end of what an hypothesis is, as they encompass more than just testability. In particular, the philosophy version of hypothesis need not be testable (it can be a hypothetical, a presumption premised for the sake of argument), and quite often in science people are inspired by hypotheses that are not testable or for which they have not yet thought up a test. Moreover, hypotheses that are useful in science tend to contain (or have implications for) significant explanations. Your stuff by your standards does not even amount to an hypothesis (because by and large it is not testable), whereas by my standards it doesn't amount to a useful hypothesis (plus it is not stated in a form that lends itself to being a decent hypothesis).
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