It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothes…

John Stuart Mill
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It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be certain to be either proved or disproved by.. .comparison with observed facts. ✨ John Stuart Mill (1856). A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation, p.293
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