[raincom]

You should better read up research done in the domain of philosophy of sciences. I was not providing a definition of hypothesis. Instead, treat as a hypothesis about hypothesis. Definitions don't settle any dispute, whatsoever, because they just replace one symbol (definiendum) with another set of symbols (definiens).

[ninetyninenine]

You gotta make sure two people are disputing about the same symbols man. Otherwise you’re disputing different things.

If you aren’t talking about definitions then one person has one set of symbols and the other has none. So they are still discussing separate things.