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..the criterion or test of an hypothesis is
the intelligibility
of the received
principle of explanation,
or its unity
(without help from any subsidiary hypothesis)
— the truth
of our deductions
from it
(consistency with each other
and with experience)
— and lastly,
the completeness
of the principle of
the explanation
of these deductions,
which refer to neither more
nor less
than what was admitted
in the hypothesis,
restoring analytically
and a posteriori,
what was cogitated
synthetically
and a priori.
-- Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason.