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Hypothesis
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Υπό means 'under'. Θέση originally meant 'placement', 'position' . It still does but 'seat' is an equally used meaning. Anyway, today we'll focus on the meaning 'position', either literally or metaphorically. The combined word means the 'foundation', the basis of something and it arrived in English around the 1500 but got this particular meaning a century later. In the arts of rhetoric and debate, it's the basis of an argument. An ΥΠΟΘΕΣΗ/HYPOTHESIS.
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