Hypothesis: alternatives and connections

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.

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An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

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The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.

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The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society.

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A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.

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Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of acco…

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A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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The act of speculating.

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The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion.

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The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

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An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.

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The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

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To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.

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That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals…

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The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

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An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

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A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

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A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

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Suspicious; inspiring distrust.

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Suspicious; inspiring distrust.

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To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.

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To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.

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A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.

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An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

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To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.

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The act of speculating.

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The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

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Surmise.

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A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

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A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.

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