residual hypothesis
Logic
noun
A (more or less certainly known) hypothesis that remains when other possible hypotheses have been disproved or discounted.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Journal of Philosophy.
- reconstructionary
- Reconstructionism
- reconstructionist
- reconstructive
- reconstructiveness
- reconstructor
- reconsult
- recontest
- recontextualize
- recontinuance
- recontinue
- recontour
- recontract
- reconvalesce
- reconvalescence
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- reconvey
- reconveyance