In a message dated 11/10/2003 12:12:57 AM US Mountain Standard Time, philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU writes: >I don't see "sometime in the last 250 years" as any sort of evidence > >for the Skinter (what's below hypothesis?) > > Suggestion? > Notion? > Idea? > Pulled-from-out-of-arse wild speculation? I'm looking for some philosophy-of-science-blessed term, if possible with a Greek root.... How about "presumption," with another meaning that puts a sting in its tail? Only a Latin root, I fear. talpianna