Philosophy Of Science

  Hypothesis The general public so widely misuses the words hypothesis , theory and law that scientists should stop using these terms, writes physicist Rhett Allain of Southeastern Louisiana University, in a blog post on Wired Science. "I don't think at this point it's worth saving those words," Allain told LiveScience. A hypothesis is a proposed explanation for something that can actually be tested. But "if you just ask anyone what a hypothesis is, they just immediately say 'educated guess,'" Allain said. Just a theory? Climate-change deniers and creationists have deployed the word "theory" to cast doubt on climate change and evolution. "It's as though it weren't true because it's just a theory," Allain said. That's despite the fact that an overwhelming amount of evidence supports both human-caused climate change and Drwin's theory of evolution . Part of the problem is that the word "theory" means so...

  INTRODUCTION In this article when we consider the tests under the Scientific Inquiry: It is scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on evidence derived by their work. Actually, hypothesis can turn the scientific test in to a logical reasoning process. Hypothesis are propositions that are made from the basis of reasoning. Confirmation & Acceptability are two words that can describe the outcome of the scientific inquiry. This outcome strength is depended on the evidential support of the hypothesis. SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY Scientific inquiry has two primary functions. Firstly,  it provides a description of how scientific inquiry is  conducted in practice. Secondly, it gives an  explanation of why scientific inquiry is successful in  arriving at genuine knowledge at the end of its  process. Scientific inquiry extends beyond  development of process skills such as observing,  inferring, classifying, predicting, measuring,...