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The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses

T. C. Chamberlin, 1890. Science.

Chamberlin's essay urging investigators to keep several rival hypotheses in play at once rather than becoming attached to a single favored explanation.

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The inquiry-framework report adopts it as a guard against settling early on one appealing reading.

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Chamberlin, T. C. (1890). The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ns-15.366.92
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