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Hypothesis (-is, f.)[1] (Graece ὑπόθεσις 'fundamentum; argumentum; consilium') est proposita phaenomeni? explanatio.
Plato in Menone quadam locutione utitur quae est "ἐξ ὑποθέσεως αὐτὸ σκοπεῖσθαι" ('ex hypothesi id speculari'); more geometrico examinat virtutem, utrum docendo an alio modo habeatur.[2]
Isaacus Newtonus de hypothesibus scripsit:
Rationem vero harum gravitatis proprietatum ex phænomenis nondum potui deducere, & hypotheses non fingo. Quicquid enim ex phænomenis non deducitur, hypothesis vocanda est; & hypotheses seu metaphysicæ, seu physicæ, seu qualitatum occultarum, seu mechanicæ, in philosophia experimentali locum non habent.[3]
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