Difference between Surmise and Hypothesis

SURMISE vs HYPOTHESIS: NOUN

The thought that something may be, of which, however, there is no certain or strong evidence; speculation; conjecture.
An idea or opinion based on insufficiently conclusive evidence; a conjecture.
Thought; reflection.
Synonyms See surmise, verb, and inference.
Reflection; thought.
In old English law, a suggestion. See suggestion, 5.
In ecclesiastical law, an allegation in a libel.
A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
Reflection; thought; posit.
Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, surmises of jealousy or of envy.
A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation. As a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation. Compare to theory, and quotation given there.
See under Nebular.
A tentative theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis.
A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence.
The antecedent of a conditional statement.
Something taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation; an assumption.
A tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation.
A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
A proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations
A tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena

To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.

A condition; that from which something follows: as, freedom is the hypothesis of democracy.
A proposition assumed and taken for granted, to be used as a premise in proving something else; a postulate.
A supposition; a judgment concerning an imaginary state of things, or the imaginary state of things itself concerning whose consequences some statement is made or question is asked; the antecedent of a conditional proposition; the proposition disproved by reductio ad absurdum.
The conclusion of an argument from consequent and antecedent; a proposition held to be probably true because its consequences, according to known general principles, are found to be true; the supposition that an object has a certain character, from which it would necessarily follow that it must possess other characters which it is observed to possess.
An ill-supported theory; a proposition not believed, but whose consequences it is thought desirable to compare with facts.
A tentative insight into the natural world

Hypothesize, Postulate, Posit, Deduce, Suppose, Assume, Suggest, Infer, Presume, Suspect, Speculation, Hypothesis, Conjecture, Guess, Supposition

Idea, Suggestion, Assumption, Assertion, Thesis, Hypothesize, Notion, Postulate, Guess, Speculation, Possibility, Surmise, Conjecture, Supposition, Theory

Speculate, Believe, Postulate, Posit, Deduce, Suppose, Suggest, Infer, Presume, Suspect, Speculation, Hypothesis, Conjecture, Guess, Supposition

Presumption, Argument, Belief, Premise, Idea, Assumption, Assertion, Thesis, Postulate, Guess, Speculation, Possibility, Conjecture, Supposition, Theory

They briefly surmise the superior qualities of such premium fonts.
The ramifications for future presidents are not difficult to surmise.
Hypothetical needs, surmise, and suspicion should be afforded no weight.
How much he saw of her, we can only surmise.
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Ifnot disproved, one may surmise that it is true.
Under torture, this time of wild surmise and alarm.
Within a few minutes his surmise was endorsed.
Now one could surmise different things about this.
But all that is surmise, but surmise that could be answered by examination of aerial or satellite photos.

As a reminder, the risk hypothesis should be written using the traditional null hypothesis format.
Hypothesis tests are used to answer a specific question in the form of a hypothesis.
Additionally, this also indicated that the null hypothesis is rejected and alternative hypothesis is accepted.
This means we retain the null hypothesis and reject the alternative hypothesis.
The specific hypothesis is very clear, and she has specified one way to test that hypothesis.
Dave should add a first rough take on the market type hypothesis and competitive hypothesis.
First, a case study is suitable for hypothesis generating rather than hypothesis testing studies.
In hypothesis testing, we begin by creating a hypothesis.
Indifference Hypothesis, the Constituent Audience Hypothesis, and the Foreign Audience Hypothesis.
In hypothesis testing, two hypotheses are used: the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis.