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Old 01-28-2020, 01:12 PM   #8262 (permalink)
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Hypothetical? No, it is a direct factually based question.
That's all you've got? An hypotheses is a direct question based on facts.
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Hypothesis
A hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it. Scientists generally base scientific hypotheses on previous observations that cannot satisfactorily be explained with the available scientific theories.
What is your conjecture of the question you raised?
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