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Written by matzipan on 2024-09-22 at 20:48

Pet peeve: people who say "I have a theory" instead of "I have a hypothesis"

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Written by Markus Göllnitz on 2024-09-23 at 00:16

@matzipan A scientific hypothesis and a scientific theory are quite similar concepts, though. Both are not disproven unprovable statements about reality. You call it a hypothesis if it is subject to your research to test its plausibilty and a theory when you accepted it into your "canon".

In other words: Those people are just honest. They never do the research, they just blind accept it.

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Written by Sean Murthy on 2024-09-23 at 03:51

@matzipan but what they really have is a "hunch"

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