Hypothesis

Hypothesis

1. Characteristics

   • Important stage in scientific investigation
     • Attempts at explanation
       • Provisional
         • Organising principle
           • Result of Rational activity
             • Result of Keen and Creative imagination

2. Origin/Suggestion

   • Keen and Creative imagination
     • Adequate and Wide Knowledge
       • Insight
         • Chance/Accident
           • Induction per Simple Enumeration and Analogy

3. Conditions of a good Hypothesis

   • Relevance
     • Self-Consistent
       • Testable
         • Compatible with pre-established Knowledge
           • Explanatory power
             • Simple
             • Predictive power