Such conclusions as these might at least serve, we should suppose, as a working hypothesis, upon the basis of which we may consider in detail a variety of questions of the day.
The point of view in regard to progress, at least as a working hypothesis, becomes an educational one, in a broad sense.
Whether an idea is a working hypothesis merely or an anticipation of matters open to eventual inspection may not always be clear.
The only rational course for those who had no other object than the attainment of truth, was to accept 'Darwinism' as a working hypothesis, and see what could be made of it.
But here his speculations have attracted a great deal of attention, and, with modifications, are accepted, at least as a working hypothesis, by a fair number of people.
Each one may have his suspicions of a theory to guide him in a course of observation, and may call it a working hypothesis.
He did not accept the Copernican theory that the earth moves, but for a working hypothesis he used a modification of an old Egyptian theory, mathematically identical with that of Copernicus, but not involving a stellar parallax.
So too is the uniformity of Nature a working hypothesis, and it never can be more.
Taking this as a working hypothesis, he examines what would be the motions of all the planets if this were true.
Science proceeds in far the majority of cases by trial of some theory as a working hypothesis.
Every separate law of Nature is a working hypothesis.
The distinctively rational phase of reflective inquiry consists, as we have already seen, in the elaboration of an idea, or working hypothesis, through conjoint comparison and contrast, terminating in definition or formulation.
The idea is accepted as a working hypothesis, as something to guide investigation and bring to light new facts, not as a final conclusion.
They absolutely must try to make the world their home, find some kind of reconciling idea between themselves and the forces amidst which they move, have some kind of working hypothesis of life.
The movement of thought in each age has its own direction, which is determined by some characteristic and fundamental idea, that fulfils for it the part of a working hypothesis in a particular science.
We are in pressing need of a "working hypothesis" wherewith to understand ourselves, as well as of a theory which will explain the revolution of the planets, or the structure of an oyster.
It may at least serve as a clue to investigation, and some day may bear fruit; at present it is no better than a working hypothesis.
By then using this as a working hypothesis, and pressing it into extremes, it can be gradually amended until it shows no sign of discordance or failure anywhere, and even serves as a guide to new and previously unsuspected phenomena.
Suppose we accept Madeline's theory as a working hypothesis, and see how we get on.
We shall now indicate the difficulties which stand in the way of its acceptance even as a working hypothesis.
Like the ancient Greek philosophers, evolutionists to-day try to formulate a working hypothesis to account for the origin of the universe.
We shall try to answer the question: Is the evolutionary theory entitled to the name of a working hypothesis?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "working hypothesis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
