Question

Use the following statement attributed to the French philosopher Denis Diderot, the chief editor of the Encyclopédie, to answer the question below:

"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."—Public Domain

What does Diderot mean by the phrase "shake a hypothesis"?

combine it with another hypothesis

prove it is flawed or wrong

provide it with additional force

interpret it literally

Answer 1

in my mind, to shake something up is to stir up the status quo

Answer 2

so it sounds like "shaking up a hypothesis" is to either show flaws in it or show there's a better alternative