SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS 257 



tliat it be not destined always to remain an hypothe- 

 sis, but be of such a nature as to be either proved 

 or disproved by that comparison with observed facts 

 which is termed Verification." This statement is 



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of value in confirming the general distrust of mere 

 hypothesis, and in distinguishing between the unveri- 

 fied and un verifiable presupposition and the legiti- 

 mate assumption which through verification may be- 

 come established doctrine. 



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R. K. Duncan, The New Knowledge, 1905. 

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F. Soddy, Matter and Energy (Home University Library). 

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