Knowledge funnel

  1. Hunch – a wordlessly sensed possibility
  2. Intuition – a hunch made articulate (gate: articulation)
  3. Hypothesis – an intuition supported by informal evidence (gate: evidence)
  4. Experiment – a hypothesis put in testable form (gate: operationalized as test)
  5. Theory – an experimentally-confirmed hypothesis (gate: affirmed by test)
  6. Fact – a theory that has been tested sufficiently that a community regards it as true (gate: community acceptance)

 

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