"My best hypothesis is that the runabout did not detect the anomaly," Tev said.

The position of Orchidaceae shown above seems the best current hypothesis, but cannot be taken as confirmed.

The best hypothesis in the world isn't worth beans without irrefutable, reproducible evidence.

At the best hypothesis, he would start acting like Adriano, all depressive and such.

Ziff went at the other minds problem by taking it as a question about picking the best explanatory hypothesis.

"The best possible hypothesis," he said, "is unusually high seawater temperatures."

"Others don't want to acknowledge that mine is the best hypothesis," he said in a telephone interview.

The classification of families into subfamilies is often not well resolved, and should be regarded as the best possible hypothesis.

Since then, he has followed this method in his research, seeking the best hypothesis available and then trying to test it against the evidence.

But they emphasized that this was only their best hypothesis.