假说,作为一个广义的概念,是具有方法和成果这样两重性的。作为方法论的假说,在此以前,人们对它也有过不少的研究,有的人是从其意义和作用方面去探讨的,有的人是从其机理、理论基础去研究的,但却很少有人从其辩证内容方面来加以思索。据此,本文试图以元素周期律的形成、发展为例,着重剖析作为过程的假说方法的几个主要辩证内容,以便在认识、运用假说方法,促进科学研究之时能收到微簿之益。元素周期律的提出距今已逾110年了,如果从人们对此规律的蕴酿算起,它所走过的路程就还要漫长得多。这一漫长的路程,实际上经历了酝酿、提出、检验和发展四个阶段,这四个阶段,也正是假说方法所经历的过程。这里,假说方法的某些辩证内容得到了充分体现。 Hypothesis, as a broad concept, has the duality of method and result. As the methodology of the hypothesis, before this, people have also had a lot of research on it, and some people from its meaning and role to explore, and some people from its mechanism, the theoretical basis to study, but very Few people think in terms of their dialectical content. Accordingly, this paper attempts to take the formation and development of the periodic law of the elements as an example, and focuses on the analysis of several main dialectical contents as a hypothetical method of the process so as to receive the benefit of the micro-book while recognizing and applying the hypothesis and promoting scientific research . It has been more than 110 years since the proposal of the periodic law of the elements, and it has taken a much longer journey from the beginning of the people’s accumulation of this law. This long journey, in fact, has undergone four stages of brewing, asking, testing and developing. These four stages are just the process of hypothetical methods. Here, some of the dialectical elements of the hypothesis method are fully reflected.