... understanding the symptoms of therecognized diseases (and so as a competitor with AM’s opponents’ hot and cold or wet and dry), and yet still wish to give it confirmation, both through confrontation ... namely, that the strongest things hurt a person most and most obviously, both one who is well and one who is sick” (6.15–18= 125, 17–126, 2). And he can proceed beyond that conclusion to reachthe ... Íποτθεσθαι, a ÍπÒθεσις is an underlying idea orbasic conception or foundational notion that one puts forward, and on which one can then construct a body of explanatory theory in some area.For...