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- Identify a specific observation or unresolved pattern and its provenance.
- Propose a possible explanation with a mechanism connecting it to the observation. Label untested assumptions and do not claim the explanation is established.
- Identify a plausible alternative and a feasible observation or test whose outcomes would distinguish them. State which outcome would weaken your explanation.
Propose an explanation before the answer is known. Connect it to an observation and a competing possibility. A hypothesis is not an observed result; useful speculation has a mechanism and a way to be wrong.
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