7. the hypothesis

This is the English translation of “die hypothese” posted at 29. July 2006 on this blog.

There are human behaviour studies that said that people tend to quickly fortify any perception by a hypothesis. Further it seems to be not easy to disprove this hypothesis by other persons. The first hypothesis is the strongest one! Personal hypothesis helps people to make things personally “come true”. Hypothesis helps us to “determine” our perception, means make the perception “real” and “truth” so it can survive the moment and become our personal fact.

How I did said above, it is very hard to disprove a persons first hypothesis about something. If you can disprove and give an alternative description of the perception that was determine by the old hypothesis, in the most cases the person use the new description, explanation or statement about his perception to reconstruct his first hypothesis and determine it in the old way! Nothing changes!

So what’s the implication of this phenomenon? So for what are descriptions, explanations and statements of perceptions? Can an explanations or descriptions describe and transport something or do they fortify and confirm something? If they can describe something we can leave and use our common understanding of descriptions and explanations. But if descriptions and explanations fortify and confirm our hypothesis and else can’t describe anything, everything will be change. The consequence would be that everything that we know and realize base on our hypothesis or in other word base on our beliefs!

I think that our beliefs make us knowing and gave as the ability to apply and do. All what we know, what we can do, all our capabilities, all the options to take effect in our world comes from and base on our personal beliefs. It seems, that all our descriptions and explanations helps us personally to make our beliefs survive the moment. They are something like “time bridges” that help us to belief tomorrow the “same” as today so we can apply and do what we belief.